John Chester Eq^r Supervisor Wethersfield Accountants Office July 9^th 1798 Sir The Treasurer of the United States will give you 2 the sum of eleven hundred & fifty three dollars & [undecipherable], which you will be pleased to pay to Major John H. Buells at [Harron?] for the following purposes — For his pay, subsistence & forage from the 1 October 1797 to the 30 June 1798 amounting to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 979. 8[undecipherable] for Subsistence of Major J. I. DeRewards for March April & May 1798 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137. [undecipherable] & for pay of James Pecker, Waiter to Major Buell from 1 October 1797 to 30 June 1798 . . . . . . . . . . 36.— D^o 1153. 2[undecipherable] for which sums you will take separate receipts holding him accountable for the latter sums of 36 Dollars — Jam^s [undecipherable] M^cSimm[undecipherable] [undecipherable]