Lieut. David Hale Ellis's Co. N.Y. Accountants Office March 20^th 1798 Sir Your letter dated the 17 Inst.^s with its enclosures, have been received, the receipts will be filed with those before forwarded — Your letter dated 1 Inst. was duly received, & the Pay & Muster Rolls examined, the receipts for bounty filled and a letter, pref[undecipherable] informing you of a remittance when it was recollected that no appropr[undecipherable] tions had passed for the present year, the letter was accordingly suspen[undecipherable] ed, and will reach you when the appropriations are passed by Congr[undecipherable] Sam He W. Simmons Asst. Lieut. Horatio R. Dayton Elizabeth Town, N.J. Accountants Office 1798 [Cancelled] Sir You will receive from Nicholas Fish Esq.^r Supervisor at New York the sum of thirty nine Dollars and ninety two cents, for which you will be pleased to give him the necessary receipts being for your Pay & subsistence for January 1798 — Sam He W. Simmons Asst. Ensign William A. Roots New Brunswick, N.J. Accountants Office April 27. 1798. Sir I received your letter of the 17 Inst.^s enclosing Pay Rolls for December 97 & January 98 of the Detachment under your command and sundry receipts for bounties paid by you; You will receive the amount of the former as usual from Nicholas Fish Esq.^r Supervisor at New York and your giving him the necessary receipts, holding yourself accountable for the due application of the same, being one hundred & fifty three Dollars & two cents; the latter are filed in the usual manner, subject to a future Settlement. Sam He W. Simmons Asst.