[Duplicate Sent February 21, 1798] William Peters Philadelphia Major 2^d Regiment December 15 179— Knoxville, Tennessee D^r Sir I received your letter by Lieut. P— 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 Es^q who paid the amount of the account, being 103⁶/100 Doll^rs out of which I paid agreeably to your request to W^m Mc Ilhenny 33⁸/100 being the amount of your note to him, leaving a balance in my hands due to you of Seventy Dollars and twenty Three Cents which I will pay to your order on demand. I should have wrote to you in answer to your first letter, but I understood that you had left Detroit— I am &^c W^m Simmons Acct^t Jan^y 22^d 1799 paid the above balance to Lieut C. B. Zeitheiser D^r order of Major Peters 70 ^7/10 Lieu^t David Hale Accountants Office New York December 15 179— Sir In the Accounts rendered to the Treas— by Melancton Smith, contractor for supplying The Troops at New Y— &c with rations (abstracts of which are transmitted to this Office) I find you have received double the quantity you were entitled to for November 17— being sixty rations, this mistake has arisen I presume from your thinking yourself entitled to double rations as commandant— which by Act of — is only allowed to Officers commanding separate Posts (by which is meant a place where Troops are stationed for the defence of a particular part of the Continent) and not to Officers recruiting the amount of rations w— have been overdrawn, you will therefor settle with the Contractor for—