W.T.Point march 20. 1784 Dear Sir, I this moment received your [strikethrough: word] — Letter of the 26^th — I have examined the [undecipherable] of the first Massachusetts Regiment — the one I believe Lieut Brown belonged to, [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for by the Regimental Paymaster — [undecipherable] June last — of course his subsistence is paid — I wish to leave this point on the first or second of the month at farthest as I shall have the papers ready and the Office shut up — I suppose the number of Chests belonging to the Office may amount to fifteen — I am with respect, Sir, Your Obedient Serv't J^no Pierce [Col Pickering] [John Pierce Esq^r — 1784 — Received Nov 24, 1784 — Col Timothy Pickering, Quartermaster General — New York — [undecipherable]]