[Accountants Office] M^r Pegs & Alverans Hopkins Pawtuxet near Providence Rhode Island November 25 1799 Gents The Secretary of War has given you a Warrant in your favor for Six thousand Dollars on account of the fabrication of Cannon for the United States, agreeably to Contract; which sum you will receive from the Treasurer of the United States, on forwarding your duplicate receipt to be accounted for. Sam^l R. L. --- Joshua Corus Esq^r Marshfield M^s November 23^d 1799. Sir Referring to my letter of the 10 Instant, I have now to inform you that your accounts for October Ult^o have been examined, & after deducting Ten dollars from Voucher N^o 16 being an error in the calculation of the pay of William Ferguson, Mechanic, the sum of D^o 1332. 96 has been passed to your credit. The balance due on your accounts for october last, was on the 8 Instant transmitted to you by the Treasurer of the United States as also D^o 1966— on the 18^th Inst^t on account; There sums appear to the abovementioned credit, [leaves?] a balance in your hands on this settlement of one hundred seventy four Dollars & [undecipherable], which you have charged on the Books of this Office — Sam^l [undecipherable]