Griffith J Mc Kee Esq^r Accountants' Office Collector Wilmington August 7^th 179[8] N C^a Sir In the absence of the accountant [I] have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 19 Ult^o enclo[sing] Receipt roll of the Recruits at Fort Johnston up to 1^st April 1798 amounting to three hundred nineteen Dollars &seventy six Cents a[nd] Muster &Pay rolls for May &June last of the said Recruits which have undergone examination &the following is the result— Amount as stated by you . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224.. add pay for June of James Greenwood mustered sick, absent, made up as such for May . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.. 228. From which deduct pay for May of S. Baker, dead..... 4.. " " " " " " " C. Merritt deserted...4.. " " " " " " " L Neal...d°.....4.. 12. leaving an amount of Two hundred &sixteen Dollars which 216. sum will be remitted to you by the Treasurer of the United States for which you will be pleased to procure &transmit the receipt rolls [of] the individuals to exonerate you on the Books of this Office on which yo[u] are held accountable for the due application of the same — The amount of the receipt roll already acknowledged in this letter will be duly entered to your credit —) I am &c Peter Hagne J^t Clk^o Cap^t Frederick Frye Accountants Office Governor's Island near August 6^th 1798 New York Sir I duly received your letter of the 3^d Inst^t with the accompanying Pay muster & receipt rolls [to] all of which have been examined &the following is the result — The amount of the receipt roll & the payments for subsiste[nce] in all six hundred sixty one Dollars &⁷⁵/100, will be entered to your credit — To compleat the receipts it will be necessary that your certific[ate] signed by the other Officers stating the circumstances attending th[e] disbursement of James Cullen's Pay should accompany the receipt roll this you will be pleased to forward — A representation of his situation should be forwarded to the Secretary of War that immediate steps should be taken for his discharge — The amount of the Pay &muster Rolls with the subsiste[nce] Abstract being six hundred twenty two Dollars &³²/100 you will as usual receive from Nicholas Fish Supervisor on giving him your duplicate receipts — You will forward a certificate of surgen's Mate that there was a necessity for a nurse &that she has been usefully employed as such and in all subsequent Pay &muster Rolls where her pay is extended this must be attended to — I have extended the pay of those men apprehended as deserters from the day they joined — It is however to be understood that therefrom as well as from any subsequent pay that may become due is to be deducted all expences which may have arisen in taking