I have thought it necessary to desire you to apply to the pro- per office and use your endeavours to find, if such were issued, and give me the earli- est Intelligence of the knowledge you may obtain in the Premises — I am &c Abiel Foster Esq.^r [undecipherable] New York Jan^y 10^th 1785 Sir, I enclose a Letter from his Excellency the President of New Hamshire, requesting you to return the same, with the fullest information on the subject of it, which M^r Pierce's Office will afford: Your compliance, as early as the nature of the business will admit, will much oblige Yours &c Capt Jo^s Howell Jun.^r Abiel Foster Sir Hartford Dec.^r 29. 1784 I have now the Satisfaction to acquaint you, that I am in a likely way to bring to pecuniary Punishment, one of the Knaves that were concerned in the alteration and uttering of the Pay Master General's Certificate N^o 27,974 in favour of Benj.^r Ray which you will doubtless Remember I brought to your office on the 25 Nov.^r last to be examined. The case is as follows — One Roger Wolcot of this State, procured a Neighbour to vend the alterd Note, by his Daughter little known to be sold in this City at Auction,