[On Public Service for] [To the Accountant of the Navy Department] Boston Oct^r 6^th 1798. Sir Inclosed I transmit as you may account for pay due me as Clerk of the Navy Yard in this place for the last six months to the 30^th September Inclusive. I have always rec^d my pay through the medium of William Simmons Esq^t accountant for the Department of war quarterly but by a Letter from him under date of the 6^th Sep^t. he informs me to make application to you for [undecipherable] [undecipherable] I shall receive my pay. I will be [undecipherable: obliged?] to you to give orders for payment by the return post. I am Sir Your most Obedient humble Servant Caleb Gibbs. To the Accountant of the Navy Department Trenton. [Docket: Calb Gibbs / Oct. 6. 98 / claiming his amount for / salary as Clerk of the Navy [undecipherable] / for 6 months to [undecipherable] 1798]