— Phil^d. Ap[r]il September 6^th 1781 Sir Cap^t Abner Noble lodged his acco[un]ts at the Treasury, and which were delivered over to my office. They not being found here, it is now [undecipherable] you [have] taken them to Virginia — I was [undecipherable] my [undecipherable] Office, and that if you [undecipherable] them out, they [undecipherable] be found — I recollect that his accounts [copy?] his bond on his attestation, [taking] his obliga[tions] that if any further balance, than what [undecipherable] was not for [undecipherable] appear [undecipherable] after [undecipherable] that he will be answerable to the United States for the same — I have now sent you sixteen hundred Virginia [undecipherable] signed by me, never lined from [undecipherable] Inclusive dated from Aug 5^th to Aug[ust] 15 [undecipherable], being [undecipherable] quite to each, quite dated one day after the other — you will please to acknowledge their receipt — I intended to send them [undecipherable] or m[onthly] weekly but this opportunity being as it did, I have forwarded all that were made — the [undecipherable] will come here, and I [shall not] forward any more for some time — I hope you will remember that [undecipherable] has a note from his [undecipherable] who was in his office for the whole balance coming The [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] [The [undecipherable] [completion?] of [undecipherable] list of the receipts of the [undecipherable] in [undecipherable] —]