[up to the 30 June 98 —] I am d W. Simmons Acct to Ensign Mill^r R Booth Accountants Office New Brunswick, N.J. July 11^th 1798 Sir You will receive from Nicholas Fish Esq^r Supervisor New York the sum of One hundred & twenty four dollars & 64/100 — being for the pay of yourself & the non commissioned Officers & Privates of the Detachment of Recruits under your command at New Brunswick up to the 30 June 1798 — For which sum you will grant your receipts to be accountable, for the due application of the same — You will please to observe that the amount of pay due to Joseph Pope a Deserter & confined in Goal, is withheld until the sentence of the Courtmartial is known & what expence the United States have been at in apprehending him — also the time he deserted and when he was apprehended — I am &c W. Simmons Acct to P.S. The Sec^y of War has not yet decided on Cap^t Millers account — The Hon^ble Accountants Office Timothy Pickering Esq^r July 11^th 1798 Sir In conformity with your request of yesterday I have the honor to hand you enclosed an extract of the letter from Ensign Hugh McCall dated 8 Ult^o that such proceedings may be had in the business as you in the absence of the Sec^y of War may deem proper — I am &c W. Simmons Acct to Fort Wilkinson 8 June 1798 Sir [Cancelled — see below —] You will receive herewith enclosed the pay rolls from N° 186 and the vouchers from N° 177 to 214 inclusively which by mistake were not forwarded from Savannah with Major Habersham's receipt for my vouchers dated 27 April last and I request that you will be so oblig[ed] as to return me the muster Rolls from N° 155 to 176 which were by mistake transmitted to your Office with the above receipt for Vouchers — I have made a calculation of the balance of the 14952 Dollars after paying the Troops in Georgia up to 31 December last — and by making some addition from my own I shall be able to pay the discharged and reenlisted Soldiers their arrears of pay until the last of July — and if the amount of the enclosed Estimate can be forwarded to M^r Habersham by that time it will save them the trouble of going to the War Office and you of paying them their arrears — I am also of opinion that prompt payment will be a great object in the recruiting service — If the amount of this cannot be forwarded as soon as the amount of the Estimate for the two months The Extract as follows Fort Wilkinson Sir June 8^th 1798 I am obliged to observe that I think the United St[ates] sustains injury by continuing that poor drunken crazy creature Price as the head of the Factory for the Indian Trade and my commanding Off[icer] not much better brooks his insults with impunity — for instance Price to[ld] Col^o was a [underline: damned] [underline: Rascal] and that he had stolen an hat out of his