[Duplicate] Savannah, 13^th August 1798. Sir It is impossible I should describe the anxiety I suffer in not receiving a line from you accompanied with Tanehe & Randolph's paynotes — I have exhausted all the reasons I have had to offer for not paying the militia — and they are growing clamorous. I imagined from the tenor of your letter of the 9^th of May last, before Col.^o Pope left this they would have come to hand; my disappointment has greatly affected me, as my stay here, and several disadvantages are connected with it. That you may be informed how far the injury extends, I enclose you an extract of a letter from Col.^o Tanshe to me. Randolph is in a similar situation — the public Service will absolutely suffer in this country, if these rolls should not come on soon. I have had some suspicions that they might have been kept on the road. I have none other for this than not receiving them. I transmitted to you vouchers, by M^r Whitney for the payments I made to Col.^o Pope — I have since paid Ins.^t M^cBall for the troops at Fort Wilkinson and Fort James the rolls to the 30.^th of June inclusively — He is now gone to^s St Marys; as soon as he returns, which I expect will be on the 21.^st Instant I shall complete the payment for all the troops in this State and the vouchers shall be transmitted, or I will bring them myself if I should be indulged with leave of absence. I request, Sir, as a particular favor, that you would write me, if but three lines, before I have been [strikethrough: even enough to receive from you] answers to all my letters. I am therefore more disappointed than I should otherwise have been. I also request that, you would state to the Secretary that, when I shall have paid the militia the 7000 dollars, and the regulars to the 1.^st of July, I may leave this country without the further injury to the service. I am weary with writing to him for leave of absence. Be pleased to make my compliments to M^r Wagner &c. I am with great esteem Sir Your obedient & humble Servant E. W^m Freeman William Simmons Esq^t A.D.W. --- Extract of a letter from Col.^o Jonas Tanshe, who lately commanded a troop of militia dragoons in Georgia, to Cons.^t Freeman, A.W.D. — Dated the 2.^d of August 1798. "On my return from a journey, where I have been on the duty of my office, I found your favor of the 23.^d of June last past. I had hardly been gratified with the hopeful intelligence it contained, than I learnt of Col.^o Pope's return from Savannah without the object it announced. What provoking fatality attends this and every payment to the militia of Georgia; in spite of our mutual impatience you to deliver, us to receive, is beyond the calculation of even those who are most familiarised with disappointments! It would be painful to you to list to a detail of the embarrassments and distress the officers and men of my former command labor under, as well as myself and others who furnished them with supplies whilst in Service. I have been and am daily forced into expenses of lawsuits, and sacrifices of private property to great disadvantage to appease the most pressing and clamorous — and with many I do not escape the censure and the ill natured suspicions of my being someway benefited in the detention of their money. The common place words of men in offices understanding one another to speculate on the poor soldiers pay &c are incessantly whispered in my ears; and what gives credit to the insinuation is, the many appointments of time, I was induced to make, from letters I received of their receiving said money within a few weeks."