tion, they will be referred to this Office for final examination & entry, of this you will be duly informed. — The receipt for Two thousand Dollars you paid to M^r Craig, came duly to hand & was carried to the credit of your account on the Books of this Office 23 April 1797. & below your account for that amount of which you were the holder for M^r Long Sum &^c W.S. Nicholas Fish Esq^r Accountants Office dep^y New York October 12, 1799 Sir In order that the acct of Capt Nathaniels Freeman may be finally closed on the Books of this Office, I will be obliging that you transmit the Treasurer of the United States the balance found due to you by this Office amounting to Doll^rs 19. 92 cts Sum &^c W.S. Israel Chapin Esq^r October 14^th 1799 Agent of Indian Affairs Canandaigua Sir By a letter just received from the Secretary of War in answer to one from me, requesting for his information whether Jasper Parish Interpreter was in service from 1 March to the 31 August 1799, & at the rate of 300 Dollars p^r annum, I am desired to ascertain the fact of service for the period charged for, by calling upon you for a certificate, as Agent of Indian affairs for the six Nations of Indians — Urgency thereof permit me to request that you will obey [undecipherable: me] accordingly — as the account will remain suspended until