The United States to Thomas H. Cushing Dr
To cash paid the owners of the Brig Ceres for the passage of William Jacobs a soldier in the service of the United States from New Orleans to New York --- 25.
To Cash paid for victualling the said Jacobs from New Orleans to New York & from thence to Fort Mifflin in the State of Pennsylvania 15.
[total] $40
I certify on honor that I was ordered by Genl Wilkinson to bring the said Jacobs from New Orleans and that I paid the sum of forty dollars for his passage & subsistence as charged in the above acct
T. H. Cushing