John Pierce Esq Pay Master Genl to the Army of the United States @ Philadelphia New Haven, April 17th 1784 Dear Sir

I have lately Been Informed by Capt

Lovedale[?] of General Morgans Regiment & Belonging to this state that in the Settlement now to be compleated with the officers and soldiers of General Morgans Reg- that the months pay which I Received from you at head of 90th[?] is now Confi- dered and Deducted in the present Settlement which I always Expected around be the case

In the Settlement which I compleated

with the Committee Appointed by the State of Connecticut to Settle with [?]ir Linn for their pay for 1780 & 1781 they Insisted on my rendering them An Account of the money which we had received within the compass of those years which I Did of this months pay which they According- ly Deducted but at the same time I in the Strongest Terms Urged the Impropriety of this Line[?] of conduct and Informing them that this money would be brought as a charge Against No in a fortune Settlement which it Seems is now the case I Likewise Informd them that this money was no part of the 3 months forwarded by the State for their Line nor Did you in my opinion consider it as such

I must consequently again have recourse

to the State of Connecticut for this monthly pay which will be a Attended with both Trouble & Expense and perhaps Loose[?] it in the End

I am Sorry Sir that I am Under the necessity

of troubling you to assist me in this matter but as I am confident that you are ever ready to render any Service to your atonasinds[?] I therefore Doubt not that you will Do it with [?]osins[?]

I therefore request you would take the

Trouble to Grainin[?] the pay roll by which I Drew the months pay at head of 21st[?] & you will find that a months pay was Drawn for the officers and Soldiers which Belong to Connecticut Agreeable to the List which I will here Impart I Beg that you would also transmit to me a List of those names with a certificate that a months pay was received from you for them at that time & place and that you Deduct it from them in the present Settlement this will be proof that this months pay remains still Due to the from the State of Connecticut

As the General Assembly will soon be

convened to whom perhaps I must apply or the committee at least I may chance to find together at that time for which purpose I wish you would Send it by this first paynt

Names of the officers & Privates &c

Willm Munson Capt Noah Lee Capt Samuel Robison[?] QrMaster James Ward Samuel Johnson Ebenezer Leech Willm Roberts John Bunk Samuel Brown Silas Cole Willm Hantley Joseph Jones Christopher Prody Z[?]trovials Sherwood Eliphalet Tisdale Benjn Davidson Abner[?] Griswould[?] Jacob Parrish Richard Walch Daniel Thurmiston[?] David Shelley Jeremiah Parmiles James Mecken Willm pesk[?] Jonathan Man Isaac Allen Nathan Broughton Charles Hayton[?] Ezra Nanson[?] John Shepard

Sir I also wish you would pleas to send

In cased a Certificate of my having Signed an order on you for a months pay for the Society of Cincinnati and that the Same is Deducted from my Amount in the final Settlement which will be proof should it be required by the Society of this State of my having signed the Institution and being a member of that [lined washed out] is a subject of such [line washed out] and other of the New [line washed out]

I am Sir your most obedient
           Humble Servant

           Willm Munson