Accountants Office December 9^th 1797 I Certify that their is due to John Steel Conservan & the crew of the public barge stationed at Harts Island the sum of sixty four Dollars for her & their pay for November 1797 which sum is payable to John Steel p^r Order Dollars 64 W Simmons Acct The Secretary of War Accountants Office December 11^th 1797 I Certify that there is due to a detachment of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers stationed at Governors Island the sum of three hundred forty four Dollars and Monday seven Cents being for the pay and subsistance of Captain Frederick Frye commanding the said detachment, the Pay, Subsistance & Forage of Surgeons Mate Samuel Osborne and for the pay of the non commissioned Officers and Privates of the said detachment for November 1797 which sum is to be transmitted to Nicholas Fish Supervisor New York to be by him paid to the said Captain Frye who is to be held accountable for the due application of the same. W Simmons Acct Pay of the Army 292 63 Subsist of Officers 40 91 Forage of Hoffe 6 Dollars 339 91 [strikethrough: 97] The Secretary of War