Cap^t Edward Miller D.W^m Accountants Office Middletown Con^t November 2^d 1797 Sir I received your letter of the 20^th inst^t covering the receipt roll of your detachment for the month of September last amounting to Ninety two dollars which will be passed to the credit of your account at this Office - the receipts for bounty paid William Nesbitt & John Burns shall be filed to be examined on settlement of your recruiting account. I am &c W^m Simmons acc^t The Secretary of War Accountants Office near Downingstown November 3. 1797 Sir Yesterday Cap^t Thomas Lewis made application to me for a further advance of money which I have declined making him untill you could be made acquainted with the state of his account on the books of this Office, and that I should receive your particular instructions therefor. enclosed is a statement of his account by which you will observe the considerable balance against him after crediting him for his pay & subsistence till 1 inst^t. I have here to remark that a great part of the amount was received by him in the year 1792, and beg leave also to suggest the propriety of his accounting for the balance previous to receiving a further advance I have frequently called on Cap^t Lewis, and wrote to him on the 3^d January last pointing out