Cap^t Frederick Fryes Accountants Office Governors Island, near N Y. May 15^th 179[?] Sir I received your letter of the 9 Inst^t & in reply have to observe that the differences & errors therein mentioned were occasioned by the incorrectness of the Clerk who had the examination of the Pay roll for he has discovered that you were right & himself wrong in both instances, they will be attended to when your next statement comes on. On the 11 Instant the Treasurer of the United States remitted to Nicholas Fish, Esq^r Supervisor at N[ew York] the sum of One Thousand four hundred and eighty six dollars and twenty six cents which with eighty one dollars & 80, remitted to him this day, he will pay to you on your giving him the necessary receipts holding yourself accountable, being for pay of yourself & detachment from 1 January to 30.^th April — pay of Lieut^t Hales Recruits for March & April 1[7—] Sam^l d^o 9[?] Nich^t Fish Esq^r Accountants O[ffice] Supervisor New York, May 15[—] Sir The Treasurer of the United St[ates will] remit you the sum of Eighty one dollars & 80, which you will be pleased to pay to Cap^t Frederick Frye at Governors Island, on the necessary receipts holding him accountable being for the March of the men Inlisted by L^t Hale now under the comm[and—]