Biggs is presently making up an order for London and needs a set of gunner's calipers that are better adapted for his use than those previously received. Since Hodgdon may already have them on hand, Biggs asks for a description so that he can assess whether they will meet his needs. He offers to order any other military instruments, such as shot gauges, that are not available locally.
Certification that twenty dollars is due Pvt. Anthony Strokes of Captain Prior's Company, and waiter to Caleb Swan, Paymaster General, being his pay through December 1797.
Certification that $396.76 is due a detachment of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers stationed at Fort Norfolk under Captain Richard Blackburn, being the pay of himself, Lieutenant John Saunders, Lieutenant James Tripplett, Cadets Peter Lambkin and Thomas Blackburn, Surgeon's Mate William Barnwell (including forage) and the non-commissioned officers and privates, through January 1798
Certification that $52.99 is due the estate of Thomas Smith, clerk of the Navy Yard at Philadelphia being his salary from August 15, 1797, the date of his appointment, to September 22, 1797, following the day of his death.
Murder of Indian Commissioner and wounding of 2 Creeks met with swift punishment for offender. Money to pay Georgia militia lodged at Branch Bank of Charleston.
After a seige of nine months, Fischer finds himself so debilitated as to be rarely able to walk across the room. He and money have become strangers so he asks Hodgdon to settle his account. He has promised to pay a Negro Dunn on the morrow but, like all Dutchmen, Dunn's heart is rarely touched with the finer feelings of humanity. Fischer has not one dollar in his house at the present time.
There is not a pressing necessity for clothing at Elizabeth Town but it will be needed soon. Rather than waiting for the river to open, and since the sleighing is now good, it might not involve much additional expense to send them all the way by land instead of by Trenton.
The regiment is now ten months in arrears of pay and Col. Henley has informed Chandler that he will soon have enough cash for all of 1797. He awaits only Simmons' instructions as to how to proceed.
