M^r George Fleming) Military Storekeeper West Point Accountants Office November 21^st 1797 Sir I received your letter of the 17^th Inst enclosing the Pay Roll for October of the detachment stationed for the service of the Ordnance department at West Point amounting according to your Statement to twenty six Dollars and fourteen Cents, to which has been added four dollars for the pay of John Kirk who appears to have been duly Mustered, yet omitted on the Pay Roll, this makes an amount of Thirty Dollars and fourteen Cents which you will receive in the usual way from Nicholas Fish Esq^r Supervisor New York on your giving them the necessary receipts holding yourself accountable for the due application of the Same. Sam &c H^y Simmons Act^g Ensign William R. Boote New Brunswick Accountants Office November 22^nd 1797 Sir I duly received your letters of the 4^th &14^th Instant the latter containing two receipts for Bounty which will be filed in the usual manner until a settlement of your accounting account takes place. Before the pay of yourself and recruits for October can be transmitted, it will be necessary that you be furnished with instructions from the Secretary of War to muster them, after which you will transmit Muster & Pay Rolls to this Office. Agreeably to your request the following information has been obtained respecting James Hambleton from Major Toussard— He Deserted from on board the Frigate where he was on guard the 12^th August last, he was paid up to the 31^st July last inclusive; Since when he has not been made up on the Mud Island Fort Rolls. it appears by Capt