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244 Payment orders for Works Services in the Engineers Department of the British military. The documents regarding services consist of payments to workers such as carpenters, coxswains and boat crews, storekeepers, chain drivers, foremen, payments to overseers of slave labor, engineers (including payments to Moncrieff himself), miners and sappers (non-commissioned officers and privates), draughtsmen, a surgeon (Robert Wilson), tailors/shoemakers, and other workers. The documents regarding supplies include payments for blacksmiths’ supplies (nails, carts, hooks, various supplies for the repair of barracks), lumber, masonry (bricks, etc.), general supplies (paper, ink, quills, pencils, wax, orderly books, etc.), the hiring of schooners, and other tools and sundries. Alexander McDonald signed as Paymaster, 1778 July 3-1780 December 31, and William van Assendelft signed as acting Paymaster, 1781 May 31-1782 December 3. The locales at which these documents were written are broken down as follows: St. Augustine, 1778 July 3-1778 December 31. Savannah, Georgia, 1778 December 31-1779 December 31. Charlestown, South Carolina, 1780 March 31-1782 December 3.

6 Military reports by James Moncrieff regarding engineering and investigations of fraudulent bookkeeping on islands in the West Indies.