William Dayton Esqu^re Accountants Office late P.M. to the N.J. Militia October 17^th 1797 Sir In an abstract of monies advanced by Perby Nevitt Paymaster General to the militia called out to suppress an insurrection in the western counties of Pennsylvania in the year 1794, you stand charged with different sums of money paid to you for the pay of the New Jersey Militia employed in said expedition and as no vouchers have been hitherto transmitted to this Office to exonerate you from those charges, I have to request your attention in transmitting such as you actually possess or can shortly obtain, properly stated, and in case of any deficiency, to refund the balance unaccounted for in your hands to the Treasurer of the United States. I am under the necessity to be the more urgent in requesting your immediate attention to this [undecipherable] in consequence of a resolution of Congress of the