[Copy] Philadelphia Septem^d 18. 1784 D^r Sir In answer to yours of the first Instant, I beg leave to inform you we shall not forget the subsistence of your garrison — I have Advanced to Cap^t M^cWharton (in Goal here) sixteen Dollars and shall send you the receipt as soon as a proper opportunity presents — if you have any money in your hands I wish you to stop it, if not, I wish you to stop it from what shall be due to him in future — Will you please to send me on the receipts for this, [undecipherable: granted] paid by you, as I can then knows [undecipherable] for them as far as they will go? I shall send on more money in the course of a few days, and you can in the mean time make use of the balance in your hands as far as it will extend. I am D^r Sir Your most Obed Serv^t Jos. Pierce As Lieut Peple of the Invalids having relinquished all claim to subsist you will please not to include him in any further return of that corps, and to appro[undecipherable: priate] for other persons whomsoever any monies you may have in your hands for him. J.P. [Maj. Gen^l Doughty West Point —]