M^r John Chilton Accountants Office late P.M. to Col. Jones's Regiment October 17^th 1797 Virginia Militia – Fauquier County Sir In an abstract of monies advanced by Presley Nevill 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 money received from him, pursuant to warrants in your favor, for the pay of Col. Jones's Regiment of Virginia militia employed in said expedition, & as no vouchers have hitherto been transmitted to this Office to exonerate you from those advances, I have to request your immediate attention in rendering such as you possess, or obtain in a short time, properly stated, and in case of deficiency, to refund the balance to the Treasurer of the United States.— I am under the necessity of being the more urgent in requesting your attention to this Object; in consequence of a Resolution of Congress of the 3^d of March last, directing me to furnish an abstract by the first week in January next, of the names of all the receivers of public monies unaccounted for. In rendering your accounts you will be particular in stating an account current—charging the monies received and crediting the expenditures made agreeably to the Pay Rolls and accounts you were furnished with— also filing the receipts with the accounts with corresponding numbers, which are to accompany the account current— A list of the sums remaining unpaid, accounting for any balance remaining in your hands unappropriated, is also to be furnished. Your particular attention is required to these several objects, as Col. Nevill the P.M.G. has been furnished with directions to attend to the final settlement of all the accounts for that expedition, and is to attend on the 15^th Nov. next for that purpose; before which time I flatter myself your accounts and vouchers will be regularly furnished and examined in this Office, the amount paid by you passed to its proper account in the aforementioned abstract to be furnished to Congress. Sam^l W. Simmons