Nicholas Fish Esq^r Superv^r New York Sir Accountants [Office] January [1]4[.] The Treasurer of the United Stat[es] will remit you the sum of five hundred and seventy five Doll[ars] twenty one Cents which you will be pleased to pay to Captain [Fry?] at Governors Island taking the necessary receipts holding [him] accountable, five hundred and fifty eight Dollars sixty four Cen[ts] which is for pay of himself & Detachment for December 1797, inclu[ding] Forage & Surgeonsmate Osborne $16 &⁰⁰ for pay due to Henry [undecipherable] late Corporal & Privates in Captain Kallisons Detachment from May to 1^st Septem^r 1797, inclusive — I am &^c W^m Simmon[s] Acct[.] M^r Joseph Asheton Pittsburg Sir Accountants Office January 18 179[.] I received your letter of the 21 Ult[imo] since which your account of Pay, Subsistence & forage has been [settled] & all advances made to you on that account have been entered her[e.] There now remains the sum of two hundred & fourteen D[ollars] & [Cents] paid you by M^r Hodgdon and Col^o Hamtramk for the Recruits agreeably to your receipts on file in this Office. On a reference to [my] former settlements with you I find those receipts not included — I therefore request your immediate attention thereto, by settling the[m] either by producing Vouchers for the expenditure or refunding the[ir] amount to the Treasurer of the United States — I am &^c W^m Sim[mons] Acc[t.]