Sir                                                                                        Philad^a. Jan^y. 31. 1785 I am sorry I cannot at present comply with your request in sending the Musters of the German Regiment. business comes on me so fast that I cannot spare one person to assist them. I have enclosed you a Copy of a Roll made out by the pay Master to that Regiment in Order that you may check the Accounts presented to you, this Roll contains a List of those who have actually had a Settlement at the Treasury as far as the 1. Jan^y. 1781 — You will please to inform me what Musters are wanting as I suppose the whole need not be sent. the Subsistence due the Officers from the 1 June 1778 to the 1 Nov. 1779 (from which time it appears they have been settled with) is made out and shall be forwarded to you by next (if I don't forget it). I must beg the Agents of your Line will pay particular attention in taking an Exact Copy of their Registers in Order to be lodged with the proper Officer, this absolutely necessary as a Check to Villainy, you cannot conceive the Number of Certificates that are presented at this Office for Inspection & in general are found to be altered, I make no doubt they will creep into your your part of the world the Villains have a liquid by which they extract the whole of the sum (and sometimes the name) & figures & in the place insert what sums they please — Cap^t Phelan has lately Return'd from Boston and informs me while there. he had hardly any thing else to do but to [underline: dam them], to such a height has your sweet Country arrived to. this is not the worst; on Inspection of a number brought by M^r Hodgdon from the aforesd. Boston there appeared six amounts amounting to near 900 Doll^s. which are absolutely counterfeits, the paper excepted. This alarms me more than the other, as it is evident M^r. T. has put confidence in some person who has abused it. this I shall inform him of and make no doubt it will surprize him as much as it did me, there is [strikethrough: theref] some probability of tracing the latter Villainy. I must therefore enjoin you secrecy until I hear further — Jos. Howell Jun^r. Jn^o. White Esq^r.