[16] To Phineas Owens Springfield Conn Sir Accountants Office March 6 180[0] Your accounts, rendered for [a] visit to [South?] [Branch?] Barracks at Springfield [Connecticut?] have been examined [&] found correct. I [also?] the sum of twenty three dollars & [undecipherable] [transmitted?] to [John?] Chester [supervisor?] to be by him paid to you, and your [receipts?] from the necessary receipts — Sam H^o [undecipherable] Dennis [Braddock?] Esq^r [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] Sir March 1, 1800 On settlement [of] [undecipherable] accounts [undecipherable] [received?] [undecipherable] he has been paid for the following articles delivered at Fort Nelson [or the Harbour of [undecipherable] Virginia] after the order of [undecipherable] for Abandonment be sent — one horse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $37.50 in June [preparing?] & [printing?] the same . . . . . . . . [undecipherable] altering [Sails?] & [rigging?] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [undecipherable] total cost . . . . $31.17[?] in July one [barge?] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [undecipherable] one [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] M[?] & one [undecipherable] [undecipherable] . . . . [undecipherable] amounting in all to Dollars $98.76 or [undecipherable] more . . $38.14[?] You will therefore please make the[se] [undecipherable] entries on the books of this [superintendent?] of [Military?] [Store?] — Sam K. [undecipherable] To William Chancellor [Storekeeper?] [Philadelphia?] March 6, 1800 The nature of my Office [requires?] that I should from time to time call on all [keepers?] of Public money from this [Department?] for a[n accounting?] of their [accounts?] for [settlement?] and as you have retained [large?] sums which remain to be accounted for, I have accordingly to [acquaint?] [that] [you?] will speedily exhibit for [Department?] [settlement?] [a true account?] with