Simmons Writing Dayton on Suspended Charges in Dayton's Account
Document 1800Simmons received Dayton's letter of the 8th which has a sheet of explanations regarding suspended charges in his account, and is replying to deal with objections Dayton has. Simmons' response contains the accounts of B Yard[?] for the rent of a house to Captain Freeman's Company, wood and transportation, and to Aaron Settle for keeping the houses and oxen. The sum total of these specific charges is 166 dollars and 62.5 cents, of which 150 dollars has not been certified. Simmons has written today to Colonel Smith regarding the original papers significant to Dayton's account.
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New York] Accountants Office
October 20, 1800 Sir, I some time since wrote to Mr E B Dayton lately M.C. for New Jersey on the subject of some original papers which were absolutely necessary to the [undecipherable] of his accounts for reply he informed me that they were in your [undecipherable] that he had made application [undecipherable] you for them; but as you [undecipherable] them to be given vouchers for the [undecipherable] where you gave [undecipherable] you did not feel yourself willing to give them up to my order. I have therefore to request you will be pleased to [undecipherable] this Office all those original papers [undecipherable] for by Mr Dayton that they may be filed with those names as authority for [undecipherable] their amounts to the credit of the [undecipherable] as well at this Office as at the [undecipherable] Sam [undecipherable]
[undecipherable: initials] Mr Elias B Dayton
Elizabethtown N.J. October 20, 1800 Sir, I received yours of the 8 inst enclosing a [undecipherable] of explanations to the [undecipherable] charges in your act — agreeable to a request [undecipherable] contained I now enclose you [undecipherable] that you may have the objections [undecipherable]; the amounts of [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] not [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] I have written this day to Willis Smith on the subject of those original [undecipherable] relative to your act to [undecipherable]