Lieu^t Peter Shoemaker Accountants Office Fredericktown Maryland Trenton 20 Aug [17]9[7] Sir I have received your letter dated [1] Inst. enclosing a receipt of Ensign Nelson for seventy five Dol[lars] being three months pay in advance which sum will be enter[ed] to your credit on the Books of this Office — The receipts for boun[ties] paid by you will be filed here subject to future examination. [The] receipts for Bounties paid by Ensign Nelson are filed in this Off[ice] I am &^c W. Simmons Acct. Lieu^t Nathaniel Leonard Accountants Office 2 Reg. D of [undecipherable] & 6. Windsor Vermont Trenton August 20 179[undecipherable] Sir I have received your letter dated 11 Inst. enclosing receipts for Bounties paid which shall be filed in this Office subject to future examination. In future you are requested to forward with the receipts a list containing the names of the persons to whom you make payments the sums & the dates. I am &^c W. Simmons Acct.