Lieu^t David Hale Accountants Office Elizabeth Town. NY. March 20^th 1798 Sir Your letter dated the 17^th Inst^t with its enclosures, have been received, the receipts will be filed with the others before forwarded — Your letter dated 1 Inst^t was duly received, & the Pay & Muster Rolls examined, the receipts for bounty filed and a letter prepared informing you of a remittance; when it was recollected that no appropriations had passed for the present Year, the letter was accordingly suspended, and will reach you when the appropriations are passed by Congress I am &^c W^m Simmons Acc^tt Lieu^t Horatio R. Dayton Accountants Office Elizabeth Town, N.J. 1798 Sir You will receive from Nicholas Fish Esq^r supervisor at New York the sum of thirty nine Dollars and ninety two Cents, for which you will be pleased to give him the necessary receipts being for your Pay & Subsistence for January 1798 I am &^c W^m Simmons Acc^tt Ensigⁿ William H. Boots Accountants Office New Brunswick N.J. April 27, 1798 Sir I received your letter of the 17 Inst^t enclosing Pay Roll, for December 97 & January 98. of the Detachment under your command and sundry receipts for Bounties paid by you; you will receive the amount of the former as usual from Nicholas Fish Esq^r supervisor at New York, on your giving him the necessary receipts, holding yourself accountable for the due application of the same, being one hundred & fifty three Dollars & two Cents, the latter are filed in the usual manner, subject to future settlement. I am &^c W^m Simmons