Simmons certifies that $61.00 is due Samuel Lewis Clark due him for expenses to and from Oneida County with the sum of five thousand dollars which was distributed among the Oneida and Tuscarora Nations as compensation for their individual losses and services during the late war, and the sum of $300.00 paid to James Dean for erecting a saw mill on the Oneida lands, agreeably to 1st and 2d Articles of Treaty, ratified by the President of United States 21 January 1795.
The letter encloses a return for ordnance and stores for July, and the vouchers for stores delivered. Bryant hoped the work on the 6 pound carriages would be finished but three blacksmiths and three carpenters and wheelwrights left some time previously. He requests another ten or twelve hundred dollars soon because the twelve hundred that recently was sent to Bryant will not cover the cost of the stock supplied to him as well as the pay for the workmen for any period beyond the end of July.
Pending approval by the Pennsylvania State Legislature of the cession of land, Governor Mifflin gives his support for the erection of block houses and garrisons at Fort Franklin and Fort Le Boeuf.
Simmons certifies that $160.00 is due Claude Marie Terrasson, temporary engineer, being his pay from February 1st to April 20th 1795, the expiration of his service.
Cash delivered by Charles Anderson for the pay and forage of troops stationed at the upper posts of the Ohio river to be forwarded by mail boat. Craig believed transport by boat was safest option. Pacification of Western Indians. Provisions sent forward at request of Col. Rochefontaine to supply Le Boeuf and Presque Isle for winter. Invoice for provisions enclosed.
Simmons certifies that $70.61 is due Lieutenant John Posey of the Cavalry at Fredericksburg Virginia, being the balance of his account for the difference of pay between Lieutenant and Cornet from June 16th, the day of his promotion, though November 1794.
Simmons certifies that $148.67 is due the recruits under the command of Lieutenant John Posey at Fredericksburg, Virginia for their pay from the dates of their enlistments through June 1795.
