the customary receipts being for the pay of himself and the detachment under his command for the month of September last. Sam^d W^m Simmons Ac^ct Capt. Rich^d. Scott Blackburn D.W. Accountants Office comm^g. at Fort Norfolk — November 1^st 1797 Sir I received your letter of the 24^th Inst^t covering a pay roll of the detachment under your command for the month of September 1797 amounting to . . . . . . . . . . . . . D^rs 278. 83 To which I have added amount of } error in casting up . . . . . . . . — 2 — 280. 83 and deducted therefrom the follow^g sums. John Milroy a deserter amount of pay . — 4 —. Ed^d Clark enlisted 7^th. Sep^t. & made up from the 1^st. difference in pay — —— 1. 17 D. Graves, his pay wrong calculated . . . . — 2 — D. Young — Ditto . . . . . . . . . . — . — 5. 21 leaves the sum of Two hundred seventy D^rs 275. 62 five dollars & ⁶²/₁₀₀ due to you and the detachment at Fort Norfolk which will be paid you as usual by Edward Carrington Esq^r. Supervisor at Richmond Virginia on your giving him the necessary rect holding yourself accountable for the due application of the same A Matron cannot be allowed at the Fort for the reasons mentioned in my letter to his John Saunders under date the 13^th. ult^t. — 8 W^m Simmons