usual from Joshua Wentworth D^p. Supervisor at Portsmouth on giving him the customary receipts. I am &c. W^m Simmons Acct^r. M^r C. P. Puncherese                          Department of War Asist Storekeeper                             Accountants Office Springfield, Massachusetts               October 12^th 1797 Sir I received your letter of the 7^th Instant enclosing your account of Pay as assistant Storekeeper at Springfield up to the 30^th Ulti amounting to Ninety dollars which you will receive as usual from M^r Samuel Levis Clerk of the War Office, to whom you will give the necessary receipts. I am &c. W^m Simmons Acct^r. John Hilty Gruin                      D.W. Accountants Office Supvr. Baltimore, Maryland                October 12^th 1797 Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of Three hundred forty nine dollars and sixty nine cents — which you will please to pay to Captain Staats Morris at Whetstonepoint, being for the Pay of himself for August and September and the detachment under his command for September 1797 taking the necessary receipts holding Captain Morris accountable for the due application of the same.      I am &c. W^m Simmons Acct^r.