[398] Samuel Meredith Esq^r Accountants Office Treasurer of the US. June 14 1798 Sir Enclosed is a receipt of John Habersham Collec[tor of] the customs for savannah Georgia amounting to One hundred Fourtee[n] &c. also a Warrant for that sum being for the Incidentals & Contingen[cies] expences 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^t 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[u] a Post Note for the sum of nine hundred Dollars being for five Yea[rs] half pay of Cap^t Pratt who was killed in action on the 4 Novemb[er] the same being granted to Sarah Pratt his widow agreeably agreeab[ly] to acts of Congress of the 7 June 94 & 14 March 98 — Sam^l W Simmons Acct^t P^S the full pay a Captain at the time he was killed was 30 D^rs p^r month. Caleb Swan Esq^r Accountants Office P.M.G. Fort Washington June 15 1798 Sir I have received your letter dated the 1 Inst[ant] accompanied by an abstract of your receipts & expenditures from No[v] N^o 598 to 608 with the vouchers for each payment You may recollect my mentioning [undecipherable]