Accountants Office April 7. 1798. I Certify that there is due to Samuel Nicholson of the Navy of the United States the sum of Two hundreds & twenty five Dollars, being for his pay from 1 January to 31 March 1798. which sum is to be transmitted to Jonathan Jackson supervisor at Boston and to be by him paids to the said Cap^tr Nicholson. D^rs 225... Pay of the Navy 98                    W^m Simmons                                                                 Acc^t The Sec^y of War Warr^t 271b.