Ebenezer Stevens Esq^r Agent of Pub^c Defences New York Sir I have received your letter of the 26 Ins^t enclosing your accounts up to the 1^st Jul^e with as Agent of fortifications also lieu^t Leonards advance^d Pay list of this Detachm^t on his Discharges all which will be examined & you will on course be informed of the result— The amount found due on lieu^t Leonards Pay Rolls will be remitted as you desire— The removal of the Office of Government to this place in consequence of the prevailing fever in Philadelphia will account for my writing to you from hence— Yours W. S. Lieut^t C. F. de Blackborn Wo Fort Norfolk D^r Sir I have received your letter dated the 2^d Ins^t enclosing Muster & Pay Rolls of the Detachm^t at Fort Norfolk for July 1799 — & w^h will be closed May 1^st past— The former will be transferred to C. Swan, & the latter for examination & payment; where duty it is on the first instance to liquidate all Army accounts and to whom you are requested to forward all your subsequent accounts, the receipt Bills will be examined here & the proper amounts entered to your Credit of which you will be duly informed. M^r Swan having also an Office at this place your communications for him will be directed accordingly— Yours &c W. S. [Accountants Office Trenton Aug^t 28. 1799] [August 28. 1799]