M^r Abner Austen Accountants Office Late P.M. to Cap^t Singleton's C^o October 17^th 1797 Virginia Militia Artillery — Sir W^m Austen Richmond. In an abstract of monies advanced by Rob^t 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 a sum of money received from him pursuant to a warrant in your favor being for the pay of Cap^t Singleton's Company of Virginia Militia artillery employed in said expedition and as no vouchers have hitherto been transmitted to this Office to exonerate you from this charge I have to request your immediate attention in rendering such as you actually possess or can shortly obtain properly stated, and in case of a deficiency to refund the balance remaining in your hands unaccounted for, to the Treasurer of the United States. I am under the necessity to be the more urgent in requesting your immediate attention to this object in consequence of a resolution of Congress of the 3^d March last wherein I am directed to furnish an abstract by the first week in January next of the names of the receivers of all public monies unaccounted for. Col Nevill the P.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 on the 15 November next for that purpose, before which time I flatter myself your accounts [Page 370 YQ01]