[undecipherable] [Accountants Office [undecipherable: probable reading "A. Simmons"] N. Buck New Brunswick New Jersey [undecipherable] [On verso, right margin, rotated:] [undecipherable] Accountants Office July 11^th 1798 Sir You will receive from Nicholas Fish Esq^r [undecipherable] at New York the sum of two hundred & twenty four Dollars & [undecipherable] four Cents being the pay of yourself and two non Commissioned Officers [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] at New Br[undecipherable] up to the 30^th of June 179[undecipherable] for which [undecipherable] [undecipherable] give [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] also as the due application of the same. You will please to shew that the amount of pay due to [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] a Deserted [undecipherable] person in [undecipherable] is settled until the rank [undecipherable] of the Commandant is known. [undecipherable] is once the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] has been made in appointing him, also the time he deserted, and when he was apprehended. [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Your Humble Serv^t received on [undecipherable] [signature: undecipherable]