of the Recruiting service, for which sum you will be to take their seperate receipts holding them accountable to be forwarded to this Office Sam ^l W Simmons Acct M^r Lemuel Trescps Agent of Fortifications Portland, Maine Accountants Office Sept^r 6^th 1798 Sir You will receive from Nathaniel Fosdick Esq^r Collector at Portland the sum of One thousand two hundred Dollars on giving him your duplicate receipts holding yourself accountable, being on account of the Fortification at that Place — Sam ^t W Simmons Acc^t Captⁿ Amos Stoddart Portland — Accountants' Office Trenton 6 Sept^r 98 Sir You will receive from Nath^l Fosdick Esq^r Collector at Portland, Maine the sum of two hundred Dollars on account of the Recruiting service on giving him the necessary receipts holding yourself accountable — Same &^c W Simmons Acct [undecipherable]