[D: Jer Ransalean & Mich: Connolly] [Copy] West Point Feb 7^th 1784 Gentlemen I recieved your letter of the 4^th Octo: day in answer to which, must inform you that the settlement with the army is by no means complicated, altho most of the regiments now [undecipherable] and have their accounts before us — [undecipherable] which occasions at this time a vast [undecipherable] on I do not [undecipherable] that it will be [by my] [undecipherable] as my whole time must be [undecipherable] until the first of April, when this Office will [remove] [undecipherable] to Philadelphia — if you wish to [have] the accounts [undecipherable] closed [undecipherable] the place for your [undecipherable] to be closed [undecipherable] you ought to be here by the first of next month at farthest. If any of the Printers will insert the enclosed advertisement, it will oblige the Office concerned A Jer Ranslear & Math^s Connolly