[up to the 30 June 98] Sam l W. Simmons Acct ℃ Ensign Willm R Boots 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 Gaol, 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 — Sam l W. Simmons Acct ℃ 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 Inconformity with your request of yesterday I have the honor to hand you enclosed an extract of the letter from Ensign Hugh [undecipherable: probable reading "McGeehee"] dated 8 Ulto that such proceedings may be had in the business as you in the absence of the Sec^y of War may deem proper — Sam l W. Simmons Acct ℃ Sir [Cancelled — see below] Fort Wilkinson 8 June 1798 You will receive herewith enclosed the pay rolls from N^o 186 and the vouchers from N^o 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 obliging as to return me the muster Rolls from N^o 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 1798 I am obliged to observe that I think the United St[ates] sustains injury by continuing that poor drunken crazy creature Price at 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 told Col. was a [underline: damned] [underline: Rascal] and that he had stolen an hat out of his[undecipherable]