Accountants Office September 5^th 1798. I Certify that there is due to a detachment of Recruits stationed at New Brunswick under the command of Ensign W^m R Boote the Sum of One [underline: hundred] and forty three dollars being for his, and their pay for the month of August 1798. which sum is to be transmitted to Nicholas Fish Supervisor of New York to be by him paid to Ensⁿ Boote who is to be held accountable for the due application thereof. Pay of the Army 1798 – D^s 143.– W^m Simmons Accountant W.D. The Secy of War— N^o 3102