M^r James Stevenson Accountants Office Late Brigade Major to the October 17^th 1797 Virginia Militia [Sir Berkeley County / Martinsburg Post Office] In an abstract of monies advanced by Presley Nevill Paymaster General to the Militia called out to suppress an insurrection that took place in the western counties Pennsylvania in the year 1794 you stand charged with monies paid to you by him pursuant to warrants in your favor for the pay of the General Field & Staff and the Field Staff of the Virginia Militia commanded by Generals Morgan and Darke employed in the said expedition; and as no vouchers have hitherto been transmitted to this Office to exonerate you for those advances I have to request your immediate attention in rendering such as you actually posses or can shortly obtain, properly stated — and in case of deficiency to refund the balance unaccounted for in your hands 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 March last directing me to furnish an abstract by the first week in January next of the names of the receivers of public monies [strikethrough: 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 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 D.M.G. has been furnished with directions to attend to the final settlement of all the accounts relative to that expedition and is to attend for that purpose on the 15^th November next before which time I flatter myself all your accounts & vouchers will be regularly furnished & examined in this Office and the amount passed to its proper account on the aforementioned abstract as furnished to Congress. I am W.C. Simmons accts