[Address panel of folded letter:] to [undecipherable] Simmons Esq^r [undecipherable] August [undecipherable] 1798 Received & [undecipherable] Capt [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Frye Governors Island August 3^d 1798 Sir I have inclosed a receipt Roll for the pay of this Garrison for the Month of June 1798 amounting to Five hundred and sixty eight Dollars and seventy four Cents, being thirty dollars, amount of Lieut Wilsons pay, short of the Pay Roll. — I have inclosed Lieut J. McClellan's receipt for Sub- sistence for May & June 1798 .............. Dollars 18.60 Doc^t Osborns rec^t for do for Jan.^y & June — 18.60 My own Do — for — Do & Do — 55.81 93. 1 Which several Sums Please to give me Credit for in the books of your Office. — [Left margin notation: 93. 1 / 568. 74 / 161. 75] I have inclosed Muster and Pay Rolls for the month of July 1798. I have made up the deficites for pay from the time they surrendered. Some Stoppages have been ordered by Court Martial to be made, which I shall do without troubling you with the accounts. I wish to be informed whether all pay due previous to desertion is forfeited in all cases — for Instance, Thomas Graham marched to Oswego last November, Served there untill April without receiving any pay, then deserted, & came directly here & gave himself up. — I have inclosed Statement of Sub- sistence for July 1798 I am Sir your very humb. Serv^t Fircas. Frye Cap^t Com^d S.H. Wil^lm Simmons Esq^r