[undecipherable] William Simmons Esquire Accountant War Department Philadelphia [Endorsements: undecipherable] 1798 [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Boucha [undecipherable] January 1798 [undecipherable] The day before yesterday I received your letter dated of the 21^st October / this day that of the 24^th [undecipherable] last, On the Subject of monies charged me on the Books of your Office. — On the 8^th of April 1795 when I [undecipherable] on the [undecipherable: probably bounty] of the [undecipherable] War Department, Major [undecipherable] at my request advance[d] me the sum of Fifty Dollars & [undecipherable: probable reading drew] on the War Department for that sum in his favor — I charged myself with the money — On the first of February 1796 I received the balance of pay, Subsistence &c. [undecipherable: probable reading due] me to that [undecipherable: probable reading date] & [undecipherable] your account carried that sum i.e. Fifty Dollars to the [undecipherable] of the United States. In this way I supposed I had accounted for the money, as it has been applied in discharge of my pay &c. as [undecipherable]. So that in fact I am not a delinquent & should be sorry to have my name placed as such on the Abstract of delinquents. I believe you may satisfy your [undecipherable: probable reading self] by [undecipherable] to the accounts of [undecipherable] M^r Flanagan Late D.Q.M. General. of whom I must [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] your most Obedient Servant [undecipherable]