Sir I rec'd your favor by M^r Coventry with the enclosed from M^r Fox, Hon. M^r Fox must have both misapprehended my application — the Com^rs which I mentioned are appointed by this State to settle on accounts for a Certain time and require a Certificate from you that we have rec^d no pay for that time from you, or to certify what our pay has been you may have rec^d in that time. It has no relation to our general Settlement. They care little how much or how little we may have rec^d in the years or how much we have to receive — Tis a simple Question requiring no more than yes or no for an answer, but I can not suppose that a publick Officer can have a scruple in answering a Question which a Law of this State requires the Com^rs or is to ask — The Commissioners will set again in September & I shall be much obliged to you — th for and such a Certificate as I before applied for by a safe Conveyance. I am sorry to be so troublesome to you, and am &c Your very Obed^t John Hamble Stewart [Deau Ledyard] N York 6^th July 1784 [John Pierce Esq^r]