Capt George Ingersoll Accountants Office Mr. Ford June 1^st 1799 Sir I have rec'd your letter dated 12 inst, inclosing the muster & pay rolls of the garrison of Presque Isle for the month of May 1799 amounting agreeably to your statement to ......... Doll 393. 97½ from which has been deducted This sum overcharges in pay of Hugh, Wood, or D[undecipherable], viz it [undecipherable] in pay of James McKernan ...... 9[undecipherable] [undecipherable] due to the Provision Com'r from 1 & a May [undecipherable] the same being credited to the U.S. by account 48[undecipherable] it. due Joseph Dickens &c from 1^st to 22 [undecipherable] 1799 the sums forfeited for [undecipherable] as above 3-Y 4-267 Dm 394.33 Leaving a balance of three hundred [undecipherable] four dollars & 33/100, which from you will receive from Nicholas [undecipherable] [undecipherable] granting your [undecipherable] receipt for is accounted for, the [undecipherable] application thereof — Sam [undecipherable] --- Oben C Pennington Esq June 19 1799 ([undecipherable]) Sir The [undecipherable] of the United States will remit you the sum of one hundred & eighty eight dollars viz 10 [undecipherable] Subsistance of the [undecipherable] of Infantry at [undecipherable] camp [undecipherable] and the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] of Capt [undecipherable] Nicolas [undecipherable] being for [undecipherable] [undecipherable] items with [undecipherable] men [undecipherable] officers & privates of said Detachment for May 1799 which sum you will please to pay to this [undecipherable] taking the [undecipherable] receipts — Sam [undecipherable]