Nicholas Fish Esq^r Superv^r New York Sir Accountants [Office] January [4?] The Treasurer of the United Sta[tes] 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 Ce[nts] which is for pay of himself & Detachment for December 1797, inclu[ding] Forage & Surgeons mate Osborne & 16 [?] for pay due to Henry [?] h[is] late Corporal & Privates in Captain Kallisons Detachment from May to 1^st Septem^r 1797, inclusive — I am &^c W Simmon[s] Act^t M^r Joseph Asheton Pittsburg Sir Accountants Offi[ce] January 8 179[8?] I received your letter of the 21^st Ult[imo] since which your account of Pay, Subsistence & forage has been [settled] & all advances made to you on that account have been entered to y[ou]. There now remains the sum of two hundred & fourteen [?] Dollars [?] paid you by M^r Hodgdon and Col^o Hamhan[k?] for the Recru[its] agreeably to your receipts on file in this Office. On a reference to [my] former settlements with you I find those receipts not included [—] fore request your immediate attention thereto, by settling the [same] either by producing Vouchers for the expenditure or refunding the amount to the Treasurer of the United States — I am &^c W Simm[ons] Ac[t]