Nath^l Macon Esq^r Accountants Office March 28^th Sir In answer to your Note of Yesterday to know if the pay of Jesse Dodds had been drawn [and] by w[hom] so to inform you that a soldier who was discharged before the 1[0]th was not entitled to any other than their nominal pay in [Co]ntinental Currency [strikethrough: which] which was generally paid at the time [in]to the [hands] of the Pay master of the Regiment to which they belonged; and was no want of money at that period I have no doubt but received all that he was entitled to; but it would be attended [with] considerable trouble at this Period to ascertain [the] payment [to] Sam D^c. [signature] M[—] [Cancelled] Cap^t Staats Morris (: Accountants Off[ice] Fort [Whetstone] P^t. near Balt[imore] Sir I duly received your letter of [—] enclosing the Muster & Pay roll of the Detachment under your c[ommand] for [—] February 1798. the latter amounting to Three Hundred & [0—] Dollars you will receive as usual from John Shelly, Esq. [—] [Super]visor [at] Baltimore on giving him the necessary receipts — Sam D^c. [signature] M[—] Cap^t Fred^k. Frye Accountants O[ffice] Governors Island New York May [—] Sir The Pay roll of the Detachment und[er your] command and the subsistence account of the Officers for Febr[uary] undergone the necessary examination. [It] amounts to Three hund[red] Dollars & forty two Cents, which sum you will receive as usual from [—] Esq. Supervisor at New York on giving him the necessary receipts th[—]