have thought it necessary to desire you to apply to the Post Office and use your endeavour to find, if such were issued, and give me the earliest Intelligence of the knowledge you may obtain in the Premises — Pam & M. Veare Abiel Foster Esq^r New York Jany 10^th 1785 Sir I enclose a Letter from his Excellency the President of New Hampshire, 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 Jos. Howell Jun. Abiel Foster Hartford Dec 29, 1784 Sir 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 altering of the Pay Master Generals Certificate N^o y 374 in favour of Benj. Ray, which you will doubtless Remember. I brought it to your office on the 15 Nov. last to be examined. The case is as follows. One Roger [undecipherable] of this State, procured a Negroes to vend the altered Note, by his daughter little known to be Sold in this City at Auction,