[Docket, cover page: from [undecipherable] L., August — Wm: Irvine, Alex[undecipherable] / Cap[t] [undecipherable] every thing [undecipherable] me / to John Pierce Ap[undecipherable] / Applications every thing [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] Certificate of [undecipherable] / and [undecipherable] information [undecipherable] / His Rec. M. S. Com[undecipherable] / in [undecipherable] adjustment [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] M. John Com[undecipherable] / B[oo]k [undecipherable] Sapper Volum[undecipherable] / 29th [undecipherable] / Copy [undecipherable] John] [Address panel, cover page: John [undecipherable] Esq[undecipherable] / [undecipherable]] Woodburn Aug 28 1789 [S:3] Subsequent to my resigning, my Commission in the Corps of Sapper & Miners and previous to the Settlement of my Accounts with the State of Connecticut I went to your Office to obtain a Certificate of all Monies I had received, and you some time in the year 1782 sent [undecipherable] [undecipherable: probable reading "M. Riley"] [undecipherable] gave you a very [undecipherable] accurate [undecipherable] which was [undecipherable] Month[undecipherable] [undecipherable] in the year 1781 [undecipherable] Continental Emissions [undecipherable] [undecipherable] by the State of [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] the Committee appointed by the State of Connecticut to settle with the Continental line and they deducted the full of the same from my dues from [undecipherable] States — Some time Cap[t] [undecipherable] informs me the same is charged to me in the final [undecipherable: probable reading "Allotment"] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] United States & me whereby I am charged with One & the same sum of Money, twice & must inevitably be obliged to [undecipherable: probable reading "settle"] the same unless I can [undecipherable] have it [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] which it I have to solicit that you furnish me with a Certificate of what Monies are charged to me in the final settlement specifying the kinds which Certificate I should wish to be furnished with previous to the Sessions of our Assembly in Oct^r next In so doing you would most oblige your most Ob^t [undecipherable] [undecipherable] into a Cap^t in the Corps of [undecipherable] John Pierce Esq^r N:B M^r Adgate who hands this will be able to transmit to me such Papers as you shall choose to send & he will wait on you to receive the same — [undecipherable signature]