Supervisors Office, Boston October 18^th 1797. Sir Inclosed are two receipts George Claghorn's for 500 Dollars and Caleb Gibbs for 187 ³⁰/₁₀₀ do — paid them respectively, agreeably to your letter of the 6^th instant — I am Sir, your obed^t Serv^t Jon^a Jackson Will^m Simmons Esq^r [Address panel: Will^m Simmons / Accountant War Office / Philadelphia] [BOSTON postal stamp] [Notation upper right, partially illegible: from / Jackson / Dated / Oct. 18 / [undecipherable] / 28 } [undecipherable: probable reading "ad/y"] / Ans. / 27]