Account of Abner Prior

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[Docket: Department of War / Accountants Office] [Address: Cap^t Abner Pryor / Michilmackinac / June 20] Department of War Accountants Office June 20^th 1799 Sir I have received a letter from Lieutenant James Sterritt, dated at Cincinnati 25^th January last, enclosing your account and vouchers for expenditures in the Indian Department, but before an examination can take place, it will be necessary for you to forward the authority under which you acted, and to particularly state all [undecipherable] received by you and, from whom, and further, to [undecipherable] the balance due to you from the United States. I am [undecipherable: probable reading S^r] Your Obed Servant Wm Simmons Acct Dep^t War Captain Abner Pryor

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Autograph Letter Signed

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Simmons has received a letter from Lt. James Sterrett in Cincinnati enclosing Prior's account and vouchers for expenditures in the Indian Department. Before an examination can take place, Prior must forward the authority under which he acted and the balance due him from the United States.