John G. Dexter Esq^r Accountants Office Supervisor, Providence R.I. 1798 Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of two hundred & thirty two Dollars & sixteen Cents which you will be pleased to pay to Capt Joseph Elliott, commanding at Fort Wolcott, taking the necessary receipts holding him accountable being for pay of himself and Detachment for January 98 — I am &^c W Simmons Acc^t Capt Joseph Elliott, Accountants Office Fort Wolcott near New Port, R.I. 1798 Sir You will receive from John G. Dexter Esq^r supervisor at Providence the sum of two hundred thirty two Dollars & sixteen Cents for which you will be pleased to give him the necessary receipt holding yourself accountable being for pay of yourself and Detachment for January 98 I am &^c W Simmons Acc^t [Cancelled] M^r Habijah Waldo Accountants Office Elizabeth Town N. J^y March 28^th 1798 Sir I have received your Letter of the 20^th Inst^t enclosing the account of Sundries delivered to the Captⁿ Michael McBride of the Sloop of War John Adams, of Congress. As General Pinckney's Stores, if you [undecipherable] to them, are here, and as I am not willing to [undecipherable] of Money on [undecipherable] of Stores under an order to a non Commissioned Officer or Privates, the pay and the [undecipherable] of the necessary appropriation not made; If Congress [undecipherable] the Proposition, I orders [undecipherable] that the [undecipherable] to be [undecipherable] and then I shall be [undecipherable] able to you for [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] settling for the [undecipherable] pay due to him — I am &^c W Simmons