respective advances made by you Noting for what purpose & returning the amount in your letter accompanying the same, above state of the Public monies in your hands will be known— I have only to add, that when payment is made to a person who cannot write his name, the same must be attested by some respectable witness. I am &c W S Jonathan Jackson Esq^r Accountants Office Post^r Boston October 8^th 1799 Sir I received your letter dated the 8 inst^t enclosing the receipt of Major Dan^l Jackson for Doll^rs 81. 39, which will be entered on the Books of this Office I am &c W. S. Capⁿ William Woodward October 16 1799 16 Reg^t of Infantry Rutlands Vermont Sir I have received your letter dated the 6 inst on the subject of the arrearage of Pay &c [undecipherable: Subsistance] due you. As the Pay master General has in the first instance the examination & Settlement of all army accounts — I have referred your letter to him, with a request to do the needful. I am &c W. S.