Jon: Jackson Esq: Boston [Accountants Office February 8^th 1801 –] Sir I received your letter dated the 24^th ulto enclosing duplicate receipts for three thousand dollars [undecipherable] you on account of the Fortifications erecting in Boston which is filed in this Office. Sam [undecipherable] --- The Accountant of the War Department Reports agreeably to the request of the Secretary of War in conformity with the Resolution of the House of Representatives of the 1^st February 1801 as far as relates to his [undecipherable] in his Office on the Rooms occupied by the War Department destroyed by fire on the evening of the 8 Nov: 1800. That the papers [lost?] were these only, which has been [lodged] in the 3^d Floor, of the building [undecipherable] as follows viz: Relating to the accounts of the Old Army. Several rolls containing muster & Pay Bills others containing accounts vouchers of sundry Pay masters & Agents for paying Troops, and one containing [undecipherable] settlements made by the late Pay master General [&] Commissioner of Army accounts These [rolls] could only be of use in the examination of claims for services prior to the establishment of the present Government which if not already settled would [have] [undecipherable] by act of limitation The loss could therefore not materially affect the settled accounts of the United States —