very imperfect and all subject to a revision at the Treasury Department, I have (the better to substantiate their validity) annexed to the account current an Affidavit, which you will be pleased to attest to before a Magistrate, & thence forward it to this Office, for the purpose of its being filed with the Pay rolls on which you received the advances — You will also be pleased to transmit the sum of 63¾ D^s, being the balance remaining in your hands & the amount thereof will, as soon as received be entered to your credit accordingly — I am &c W^m Simmons Acct^t Cap^t Edward Miller Accountants Office Governors Island near New York, May 5. 1798. Sir I received your letter of yesterday and in answer I have to inform you, that the money for the hay of yourself & the Detachment under your command for January, February & March 1798 was forwarded to John Chester Supervisor at Wethersfield in Connecticut on the 20 April and now lies there subject to your order & on enquiry of M^r Sewes I find that he enclosed to you in Postnotes 120 Dollars, 21 April at Middletown — I am &c W^m Simmons Acct^t