Samuel Meredith Esq^r Accountants Office Treasurer of the US June 14 1798 Sir Enclosed is a receipt of John Habersham Collec[undecipherable: Collector of] the Customs for Savannah Georgia amounting to One hundred Fourtee[undecipherable: n Dollars] tis, also a warrant for that sum being for the Incidentals & Contingen[undecipherable: t] expenses of the War Department to which warrant the receipt is to be annexed agreeably to a request of the Comptroller of the Treasury Sam^l W Simmons Acct. John N Cummings Esq^r Accountants Office New Ark New Jersey June 16. 1798 Dear Sir I now have the pleasure of enclosing to yo[undecipherable: u] a Post Note for the sum of nine hundred Dollars being for five Ye[undecipherable: ars] half pay of Cap^tn Pratt who was killed in action on the 4 Novemb[undecipherable: er] the same being granted to Sarah Pratt his widow agreeably agreeab[undecipherable: ly] to acts of Congress of the 7 June 94 & 14 March 98 — Sam^l W Simmons Acct. P^S the full pay of a Captain at the time he was killed was 30 D^rs p month Caleb Swan Esq^r Accountants Office PM D Fort Washington June 15 1798 Sir I have received your letter dated the 1 inst. accompanied by an abstract of your receipts & expenditures from No. 595 to 608 with the vouchers for each payment. You may recollect my mentioning [undecipherable]