M^r William Chambers Accountants Office Late Paymaster to Col. Cresaps Reg^t October 17^th 1797 Virginia Militia — Staunton 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 by him pursuant to warrants in your favor, for the pay of Col. Daniel Cresaps Regiment of Virginia militia, employed in said expedition; and as no vouchers have hitherto been transmitted to exonerate you from these advances, I have to request your immediate attention in rendering such as you proper or can obtain in a short time, properly stated, - and in case of deficiency, to refund the balance unaccounted for in your hands to the Treasurer of the U 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 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 the several objects as Col. Nevill, the P.M.G. has been furnished with directions to attend to the final settlement of all accounts for that expedition, and is to attend for that purpose on the 15^th November next: before which time I flatter myself your accounts and vouchers will all be regularly furnished and examined in this Office, and the amount paid you passed to its proper account on the aforementioned abstract to be furnished to Congress. I am W^m Simmons Acc