[454] Capt. Sam. [undecipherable] Fort Jay near New York Accountants Office December 20 1799 Sir I have received your letter of the 8^th Instant enclosing a receipt for the hire of a fifer which will be [undecipherable] subject to an examination when you forward your [undecipherable] account for settlement this I wish may be done as soon as possible in order that I may be enabled finally to close your account on the Books of this Office the balance transferred to the pay master branch for settlement — Sam [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Moses B. Doudle Esq. December 20 1799 Chamick Court N. Jersey Sir You Stand charged on the Books of this Office with the amount of a warrant [undecipherable] the 1^st March last for $74.2 [undecipherable] on account of M^r [undecipherable] table for rent for managers employed by the United States at Monmouth [undecipherable] previous to your being substituted from such charges it is necessary that you transmit to this Office the receipt of M^r [undecipherable] which I request may be done as early as convenient — Sam [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Capt. James Watts December 27^th 1799 Fort Jay near New York Sir I have received your letter dated the 20 Instant enclosing [undecipherable] a receipt of five [undecipherable] which I return You [undecipherable] as proper now to be owned and adjusted by the pay master branch to him you will forward them with all other accounts of abstracts — Sam [undecipherable] [undecipherable]