[51] Accountants Office November 13^th 1797 I certify that there is due to a detachment of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers Stationed at fort Norfolk the sum of Two Hundred eighty five Dollars and twelve cents being for the pay of Captain Richard A. Blackburn Lieutenant John Saunders & James Triplett, Cadets Peter Lambkin and Thomas Blackburn and the Non commissioned Officers & Privates of the said detachment for October 1797 which sum is to be transmitted to Edward Carrington Supervisor at Richmond to be by him paid to the said Captain Blackburn who is to be held accountable for the due application of the same Pay of the Army for 1797 285 Do 12^c W^m Simmons Acco The Secretary of War Accountants Office Novem 13^th 1797 I certify that there is due to John Stagg Jun^r Clerk to the Office the sum of Three hundred eighty five Dollars and thirty eight Cents being for the balance of his account of Contingent Expenses of the War Office from the 2^d April 1793 & 11^th February 1794 for payments made for Clothing of Morgan [undecipherable] Cowles who made their escape from the Indians for Compensation to James Seaward for services in the Indian Department and for Boarding payments made for Clothing education & of John Durant Richard Bailey Law youth of the Land nations of Indians Indian Department 385 Do 3⁸ / 1797 W^m Simmons Acco The Secretary of War