Capt. Alex. Thompson Niagara Works [Accountants' Office August 22^d 1799] Sir I received your letter of the 24 Ult^o including your accounts & vouchers therein referred to for settlement — which have undergone examination found to differ from your statement — Copy herewith of your account as stated in this Office for your government by which there appears a balance in your favor of $178.91 from which deduct — the sum withheld for payment of your receipt in favor of D^r John G. Coffin 80— —— 98.91 [undecipherable] pay for [sundry men?] statement at Fort Niagara from 1 March to 31^st May 1799 [receipts?] bill hereunto 553.53 —— Debt: 653.46 Amounting to two hundred fifty two Dollars & forty six Cents which sum you will receive from [undecipherable] to whom you will please to transmit your duplicate receipts holding yourself accountable for his due application thereof. As soon as you have obtained the signatures to the within receipt tell it is to be returned in order to exonerate you from the charge (with that for the month of June 99) on the books of this Office I am &c N. S. --- Lieut. [V.] Peyton August 25. 1799 [Great] Springs T. Sir I have received your letter dated the 3^d [Instant?] on the subject of your claim as [Adjutant?] while acting as such in the absence of Lieut. Blackborne [undecipherable] you the [undecipherable]