[273] Jonathan Jackson Accountants Office Supervisor Boston April 27. 1798. Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of Two hundred & twenty five Dollars, which you will be pleased to pay, to Capt^o Samuel Nicholson, and take his duplicate receipts therefor; it being for his pay from 1 January to 31 March 1798. inclusive — Sam &c W Simmons Acct Capt Samuel Nicholson Accountants Office of the Navy of the U.S. April 27. 1798. Sir I received your letter of the 26. Ult^o enclosing your account of pay & subsistence from 1 January to 31 March 98 inclusive— The latter has been suspended until the price of the Naval Ration for 1798. is fixed by the Secretary of War only contract, the amount of the former you will receive as we write from Jonathan Jackson Supervisor at Boston on giving him your duplicate receipts for the same — Sam &c W Simmons Acct The Hon^le Accountants Office Nath^l Macon in Congress April 7. 1798. Sir In consequence of your exhibiting to this Office the Certificate of Captain William Parsons in support of the Claim of John I. Branham a private in the late 5 Reg^t Dragoons and by him endorsed in favor of Roderick Bigelow of the Rockland County State of South Carolina 24 March 1789. upon which I have caused [marginalia, left margin, written vertically: back dated 1^st May 28]