Cap^t [undecipherable] Shoemaker Accountants Office Novem^r 26^th 1800 In the care of your [undecipherable] right [undecipherable] leaving Sir I have received your letter of the 7^th inst. inclosing receipts in advance [undecipherable] and the Bounties entitled to you, from which I have drawn an account [undecipherable] to be [undecipherable] having a balance due you of fifty [undecipherable] dollars which from [undecipherable] will be [undecipherable] on my [undecipherable] from you, from the— W.S. Griffith [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Esq^r Novem^r 25^th 1800 Collector Wilmington N.C. Sir I received your letter dated [undecipherable] [undecipherable] inst. enclosing the receipt of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] hundred [undecipherable] which is indeed on record in the books of this Office— W.S. Mr John [undecipherable] Waldo Novem^r 25^th 1800 Salem, Massachusetts Sir I have received your letter dated [undecipherable] inst. and in reply thereto have to inform you that an application to the War Office for a copy of the Instructions furnished [undecipherable] relative to the Fortification at Fort [undecipherable], have now [undecipherable]—This [undecipherable] all the papers belonging to that Office were [undecipherable] by fire. To enable me therefore to answer your [undecipherable] forms now [undecipherable] in evidence, your account, it is necessary that you should furnish me with the Instructions under which your