[Accountants Off^ce] M^r Caleb Gibbs Clk. of the Navy yce Boston Sir Accountants Off^ce October 8^th 1797 I received your letter of the 3^d Inst enclosing your acc for your salary as clerk to the Navy, paid at Boston from 1^st July to September 1797 inclusive amounting to One hundred, eighty seven dollars & fifty cents which sum, you will receive as usual from Jonathan Jackson Esq^r Supervisor at Boston on giving him the necessary receipts for the same. I am y^rs W^m Simmons Acct^r --- M^r Stephen Hillis Knoxville Tennessee Sir Accountants Office October 8^th 1797 I duly received your letter of the 13^th ulto with its enclosures — I understand the Waggons have arrived but the vi mentioned in your letter have not yet come to hand. I am y^rs W^m Simmons Acc^t --- Cap^tn Edward D. Turner Pittsburgh Sir Accountants Office October 6^th 1797 You will receive from Samuel Lewis Clerk in the War Office the sum of two Hundred dollars being on account the recruiting service, for which you will please forward his your receipt holding yourself accountable for the due application thereof. I am &c W^m Simmons Acct^r