[18] [Dear Sir] Philad^a Jan. 10. 1785 I have to acknowledge the Receipt of the Certificates as Numbered in your Letter by M^r [Transcomb?] as it shews the Margins Post — M^r Millegan has requested a Copy of all the Registers in the Office — and the multiplicity of Business occasioned by the Counterfeit Certificates has induced me with the approbation of M^r Millegan to employ M^r Swan late Ensⁿ in the American Regiment and M^r Miller as additional Clerks untill this Business can be completed — I am greatly obliged to you in sending the Money on to me — for it I am very [undecipherable] I am Yours &c J^no Pierce Esq^r — Jos Howell Jun^r [Sir] Elizabeth Town 16 Jan^y 1785 I have to acknowledge the receipt of your Letter of the 25 of Decemb^r accompanying a part of the Jersey line from N^o 22.28 to 25.331 and from 856 to 56.78 inclusive and also your Letter of the 6^th Instant with a copy of the Register of the said line from N^o 8819 to 9702 inclusive, also a Copy of the Registers of Settlements made by individual officers &c of the Jersey line. Jos Howell Jun^r — W^m Livingston