Griffth I Mc Kee Esq^r Accountants' Office Collector Wilmington August 7^th 179[8] N.C. Sir In the absence of the accountant [I] have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 19 Ult.° enclo[sing a] Receipt roll of the Recruits at Fort Johnston up to 1^st April 1798 amounting to three hundred ninteen Dollars & seventy six Cents & 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.→ " " " " " " J. 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 y[ou] 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 & Peter Hagne J.° Clk° 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 subsistenc[e] in all six hundred sixty one Dollars & [undecipherable]/100, will be entered to your credit— To compleat the receipts it will be necessary that your certificat[e] signed by the other Officers stating the circumstances attending the 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 subsistenc[e] Abstract being six hundred twenty two Dollars & [undecipherable]/100 you will as usual receive from Nicholas Fish supervisor on giving him your duplicate receipts— You will forward a certificate of the surgeon'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