The Hon^ble Dwight Foster, in Congress Accountants Office April 9. 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 Ruben Pike enlisted as a private in the 6 Reg^t. on the 7^th. of January 1777. for the War, and was promoted to Corporal the 1^st of Aug^t. 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^r. M^r George Claghorn Accountants Office Naval Constructor Boston April 17. 1798 Sir I received your letter of the 31 Ult. 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. Accountants Office Supervisor, Boston April 17 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