Accountants Office November 9^th 1797 I Certify that there is due to Forman Cheesman Superintendant of the Navy Yard at New York the sum of One hundred Dollars being for his compensation from 1^st July to the 30 September 1797 inclusive which Sum is to be transmitted to Nicholas Fish Supervisor New York to be by him paid to the said Forman Cheesman. Wm Simmons Acct. Dollars 100 The Secretary of War Department of War Accountants Office November 9 1797 I Certify that there is due to John M Lovell Lieutenant and Brigade Major the Sum of Eighty four Dollars and eighty four Cents being the amount of his pay, Subsistence and Forage for the Month of October 1797 Wm Simmons Acct. Pay Army 55 Subsistence 19. 84 Forage 10. [underline: Dollars 84. 84] The Secretary of War