Lieut Peter Shoemaker Accountants Off[ice] Fredericktown April [3] Sir I received your letter of the [2^d] agreeably to your request have caused a statement of your acco[unt] to be made a copy of which you have herein enclosed, and in [it] is a balance due [the] United States of Four hundred and [undecipherable] Dollars and ninety one Cents chiefly arising from your not ha[ving] transmitted the Receipt Rolls for pay of yourself and Detach[ment] to 1^st August last which I request you to do as soon as possi[ble] your account may be credited for the amount on the Books of this [office] In the aforementioned stateme[nt you] well observe that your Recruiting account is embraced, and that y[ou are] credited with the full amount of bounty charged by you in it, as [also] the premium for inlisting M^r Melean & Matthews, the reason[s for] making the deductions for eight Dollars are sufficiently expla[ined in the] account Current — Sam^ple W[undecipherable] --- M^r Ames Smith Accountants Offi[ce] Trenton N.S. April 3^d Sir I received your letter of the 24 Feb[ruary] enclosing your Affidavit, taken the fore Joseph Beavers, decla[ring] you have disbursed the whole of the monies you received for [paying] your Company, to the Individuals composing the same[,] which filed with the Pay rolls conformably to my letter of [the] 7^th 1797 — Sam^ple W[undecipherable]