Ensign Will^m R Boots New Brunswick, N.S. Accountants Office May 22^nd 1798. Sir I received your letter of the 19 inst^t, enclosing a duplicate receipt of John Bancroft for four dollars on account of Bounty, which is filed with others before rec^d, together with receipt rolls of the recruits &c under your commands for December 1797, January, February & March 1798, — amounting together to four hundreds five dollars & four cents, which amount will be entered to your credit on the Books of this Office. Your recruiting account will be immediately put under examination, as soon as you forwards a statement of it to this Office, or on your arrival here which I understand will be in a few days — I am d^o W Simmons Ac^t Cap^t Joseph Elliott Fort Wolcot near New Port. Accountants Office May 22^nd 1798 [May 21] Sir I received your letter of the 14 inst^t accompanied with a receipt roll for payments made to the detachment under your command, for August & September 1797 — and Muster & Pay rolls of your detachment for February, March & April 1798 — the former amounting to six hundred seventy six dollars and sixty one cents will be entered to your credit on the Books of this Office — the latter amount to D^o 525.31 to which add the amount of Pay rolls for January . . . . . 232.16                                                                               757.47