[Docket: Lt. John Hancock / dated 13 Sept. 1798 / Rec'd [undecipherable] day] [Address: [Accoun]trant of the war department / [Phil]adelphia] Sir, Kempsville head quarters Sept 15. 1798 Your Letter of 30^th Aug.^t came to hand by the last mail I have forwarded your receipts as therein directed — I have also forwarded a list of the names of my recruits with the amount of bonus paid to each annexed to their own cal names — I have the honor to be with high respect [undecipherable] Jn.° Hancock [undecipherable] List of the Names of recruits enlisted by Lt. Hancock at Kempsville Virginia, with the sums paid to each as bounty — Names | Sums p.^d Samuel Whitehurst | $8..00 George Tyson | 8..00 Wm. Biddle | 8..00 Charles Welborn | 8..00 Wm. Newlin[undecipherable: Newling?] | 8..00 Wm. Hepburn | 8..00 Ja.^s Cannon | 6..00 John Owens | 8..00 Samuel Clements | 8..00 Christopher Tobias | 8..00 Wm. Jackson | 8..00 [undecipherable: Betton/Patton] [undecipherable: Band/Land] | 8..00 Dennis [undecipherable: Reid?] | 8..00 James King | 8..00 James [undecipherable] | 8..00 Willoughby Eason | 8..00 James [undecipherable: Crabb?] | 8..00 Henry [undecipherable: Branson?] | 8..00 Charles Smith | 8..00 James Dawson | 8..00