The Hon^ble Dwight Foster, in Congress Accountants Office April 9^th 1798 Sir In consequence of your request I have caused an examination, to take place of the Muster Rolls of the Massachusetts line, and finds that Buston Pike enlisted as a private in the 6^th Reg^t. on the 7^th. of January 1777. for the War, and was promoted to Corporal the 1^st of Aug^st 1780: but cannot ascertain the time of his death. The name of Samuel Scammel does not appear on any of the Muster Rolls of the late line of Massachusetts. I am &^c W Simmons Acct^t. M^r. George Claghorn Naval Constructor, Boston Accountants Office April 17^th 1798 Sir I received your letter of the 31 Ult^o. with your salary account annexed, from 1 January, to 31 March 1798. amounting to five hundred Dollars, which sum you will receive from Jonathan Jackson Supervisor at Boston, on giving him your Duplicate Receipts for the same. I am &^c W Simmons Acct^r. Jonathan Jackson Esq^r. Supervisor, Boston Accountants Office April 17^th 1798 Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of six hundred eighty seven Dollars, & fifty Cents. five hundred of which you will please to pay to M^r George Claghorn Naval Constructor, and the remainder to M^r Caleb Gibbs Clerk of