Cap^t Peter Shoemaker Accountants Office (In the care of [undecipherable]) November 26. 1800 Sir — I have received your letter of the 7 inst enclosing receipts in [undecipherable] [undecipherable] find that the Bounties entitled to you, from which I have [undecipherable] an account [undecipherable] to be [undecipherable] leaving a balance due you of fifty [undecipherable] dollars which [sum] will be [undecipherable] on my hearing from you — from the N.S. Tarph F.W. [undecipherable] Cap November 26 1800 Collector Wilmington N.C. Sir — I answer your letter [undecipherable] the 18 inst encloses the receipt of S. [undecipherable] for thirteen hundred dollars which is entered on record in the books of this Office — from the N.S. Mr. Josⁿ Waldo November [undecipherable] 1800 Salem, Massachusetts Sir — I have received your letter dated [undecipherable] inst and in reply thereto have to inform you that your application to the War Office for a copy of the Instructions furnished the[undecipherable] relates to the Fortification at Fort [undecipherable] was [undecipherable] that as all the papers belonging to that Office were destroyed by fire. To enable me therefore to assist you what forms were necessary in rendering your accounts, it is necessary that you should furnish me with the Instructions under which your