Department of War Accountants Office ) February 11^th 1799 Sir I have received your letter dated the 3^d Inst. enclosing a Muster & Pay Roll of yourself & Recruits for the month of January 1799. Amounting agreeably to your own Statement to . . . Dollars 211 63. from which has been deducted amount of your Rations untile the Contract price of Rations for the present year can be ascertained. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-2 Deb^r 198·61 leaving an amount of one hundred & Ninety eight Dollars & Sixty one Cents which sum you will receive from Nicholas Fish Esq^r Supervisor at New York, granting the necessary receipts holding yourself accountable for the due application thereof—— I have received sundry receipts for bounties paid by you, which with those before received have undergone examination. The balance found due to you on settlement of your Recruiting Account being Sixty three dollars & Sixty two cents (Y^r inclosed Statement to your government,) you will receive from the said Nicholas Fish Esq^r, Supervisor at New York — for which sum you will please to grant your duplicate receipts — The muster Roll for the Pay & Subsistence of yourself & Recruits for the month of December 1798. has been examined. the amount thereon Receipts being One hundred & Ninety five Dollars & Thirty one Cents, will accordingly be placed to the Credit of your account on the books of this Office —— I am Sir —— Your Obed^t Hble Serv^t W. Simmons Ensign William R. Boote New Brunswick State of New Jersey. [Outer cover endorsements: Department of War / Accountants Office / [signature: Simmons] / Ensign William [R.?] Boote / New Brunswick / New Jersey / [postal notation, partially legible]]