War Department 14^th April 1800. Gentlemen Your letter of the 14^th February ulto. was received, inclosing your account against the United States for sundry disbursements &c made by you. The account was delivered to the Accountant of this Department for adjustment, who reports to me that the sum of Two hundred and seventy four Dollars and thirty nine Cents is due to you, which includes Storage, and a Commission of five ꝑ Cent allowed you — I have issued a Warrant for the above sum to be paid you by Jedediah Huntington Esq^r Collector at New London, to whom you will please apply — I am Gentlemen Your obed Servant James McHenry Mess^rs Phelps & Hanford, New Haven, Connecticut. [Docket notation on cover, rotated: James McHenry / War Departm^t / from [undecipherable] / 1800] [Postal stamp on cover]