making in the whole Eleven hundred & fifty three dollars 5 [undecipherable] which sum you will receive from John Chester Esq Supervisor Wethersfield, to whom you will give the necessary receipts, You will forward Ickers receipt to this Office to exhonerate you from the charge — Enclosed is a copy of the statement of your account of pay, subsistence & Forage for your government — Sam^d W Simmons Acct^t P^S No allowance can be made from this Office for subsisting your waiter, the law no authorizing the payment in lieu of Soldiers rations — The enclosed due Bills of m^r Day for 414 Rations due to Major R[undecipherable] he requested that it might be sent to you — W.S. --- Capt. Rich^d Blackburn — Accountants Office Fort Norfolk near Norfolk July 3^d 1795 Virg^a Sir On examination of the account rec^d from the Treasury Department, of Rations supplied by William [undecipherable] Contractor to the Officers of the Troops stationed at Norfolk under your command & their waiters, it appears that 122 Rations have been furnished to Cadet P. Lambkin for October November & December [undecipherable] whereas he was entitled to receive 92 Rations only, for that period for himself a Cadet not being allowed a waiter, it is probable however that this waiter may be a Soldier & entitled himself to receive rations as such — He has also received 180 Rations for January February & March 1798 for himself, whereas he was entitled to receive only 90