William S Peters Philadelphia Major 2^d Regiment December 15 179 Knoxville, Tennessee D Sir I received your letter by Lieut. [Dun?] and also the one from Detroit of the 14 Nov^r 1796, enclosing an Account and papers from you which I presented to Henry Glen Esq^r who paid the amount of the account, being 403¹⁰⁰ Doll^rs out of which I paid agr to your request to W^m M^cIlhenny 333¹⁰⁰ being the amount of your n to him, leaving a balance in my hands due to you of Seventy Dollars an twenty Three Cents which I will pay to your order on demand. I sho have wrote to you in answer to your first letter but I understood th you had left Detroit — I am &^c W^m Simmon Acct^t [Duplicate Sent February 21 1798] Jan^y 2^d 1799 paid the above balance to [undecipherable] Cer theuser D Order of Major Peters 70 [undecipherable] Lieu^t David Hale Accountants Office New York December 15 179 Sir In the Accounts rendered to the Trea by Melancton Smith, contractor for supplying the Troops at New Y &c with rations (abstracts of which are transmitted to this Office) I fin have received double the quantity you were entitled to for November 1[?] being sixty rations, this mistake has arisen I presume from your th yourself entitled to double rations as commandant — which by act of is only allowed to Officers commanding separate Posts (by which m a place where Troops are stationed for the defence of a particular par the Continent) and not to Officers recruiting; the amount of rations w have been overdrawn, you will therefor settle with the contractor for