Cap^t Pete Shoemaker Accountants Office November 26^th 1800 Sir — I have received your letter of the 7 Inst — inclosing receipts in abstract [undecipherable] and the Bounts entitled by you, from which I have Drawn an account found to be [undecipherable], having a balance due you of fifty [undecipherable] dollars which [undecipherable] will be Paid on my hearing from you — from the [undecipherable] M.S. Tappeth D.W. M^c Co^s Collector Wilmington N.C. November 25^th 1800 Sir I receive your letter Dated the 18 Inst enclosing the receipt of S. Wainwright for Soldiers bounties which is added on record on the books of this Office — M.S. M^r Jon^d Waldo Falms, Massachusetts November 2[undecipherable] 1800 Sir I have received your letter dated [undecipherable] and am sorry therein have to Inform you that an application to the War Office for a copy of the Instructions furnished thereto relative to the Prohibition of Fort Brining now came to That as all the papers belonging to that Office are [undecipherable] by fires. To enable me therefore to Answer your [undecipherable] forms now remaining in existence, it is necessary that you should furnish me with the Instructions [undecipherable] which you