[Docket: 1) John [Sears?] Esq^r [Secry?] [Gen?]] [From [undecipherable], January 13 1784] [seal] Dear Sir [undecipherable] — Since you last, I have been hoping to hear you had received the [last?] race of my [Company?] and the settle=ment I made, with you of [that] [last?] race at Albany the 26^th of Feb^y 76, that I might have it in my hands to remove every difficulty that may obstrue — the [formal?] [Compleat?] settlement of my account with the [Publick?] [undecipherable] [you?] to favour me with those [papers?], as soon as you can that there may be as little delay as possible in [putting?] the [business?] in its proper train — I have [you?] not found that I have received no Subsistence [money?] since [undecipherable] — [I] have [had?] the favour of [you?] to forward my [Subsist?] agreeable to [undecipherable] a [reply?] letter to myself or [Morledge?] at this place. I [should?] have [you?] favour me with a letter to [undecipherable] direct to me at N^o 36 Water Street. With my sincere respe[cts] and the Compliments of the Season [I am] believe me to be — with great regard and esteem Dear Sir Your very humble Servant- Marinus Willett New York 13^th Jan^y 1784 [Addressed: John Pierce Esq^y] --- [Enclosure docket: [To?] Col. Willett — [W?] Copy, [Jan?] 20 1784] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] January 20 1784 D^r Sir Your favor of the 13^th is received — I have had no answer to my request for money for the subsistence of your Corps, tho' expected hourly — the Gentleman who went for that and some other purposes not having returned — when it arrives I shall deliver the whole arrears of subsistences up into the hands of your Payee or a Person in whose favor he draws an order — he will have a better opportunity to transmit it to you than myself, because he will have less business to attend to — I will however [strikethrough: undecipherable] endeavor to take measures with him for you to get it. Your Blanquo, requested are not come from Phila^a — I have written again to day for them Col. Willett