Captⁿ Richard S Blackburn Accountants Office Fort Norfolk near Trenton Aug^t 21 1793 Norfolk Virginia Sir I have received your letter of the 10^th enclosing muster & pay roles of the Troops stationed at Fort Norfolk under your command for the month of July 1793 which have undergone examination & the result is as follows viz. This sum deducted from his pay claimed by Michael Shannon as sergeant major & Quarter mastersergeant his pay as Sergeant can only be admitted . . . . . . . . . . . . D^o 2. Overcalculated in the pay of Richard Lockwood, Private . . . . . 1 Ditto . . . . . . . of Thomas Ives . . . . . . . 21 The pay of a Sergeants claimed by G. Blambo in Lieut^t Claibornes Detachment cannot be admitted, 4 Sergeants only is allowed by law, to each Comp^y he is made up for pay as a Private . . . . . 3 — ——— 5. 2 Those errors being corrected, the amount of the pay rolls are as f: Pay Roll for yourself & Company for July 1792 . . . . . . 302. Ditto — Lieut^t Claibornes his Detachm^t for d^o . . . 312. 4 D^o 614. Amounting to six hundred fifteen Dollars & the which sum you will receive from Edward Carrington Supt at Richmond granting your receipts for the same, to be accountable for the due application thereof — Sam^l W Simmons Acct^s [P.S.]