[241] your opinion that Commutation should be given I beg you will inform me as early as possible, Jos. Howell Jun^r. Jn. Pierce Esq^t. Dear Sir, Lancaster Feb^y 5. 1785. My Friend George Weiss will wait on you to whom you will be so kind as to inclose the Account as you find it as I am well assured you would not see me wronged if it lay in your Power to Prevent it. I should also be very glad if you'll be so kind as peruse the act of Assembly concerning the years Supernumary Pay as I think hard to be excluded from the Rest. if Nothing can be done for me I do intend to Petition the house of Assembly about it. Col. Atlee inform'd me that I was intitled to the Land given to the Officers. I should if you would inform me how that was and I shall return you many thanks besides paying you for your trouble and I shall remain as Usual your very Jos. Howell Jun^r Esquire Humble Serv^t. Abraham Dehuffe I cannot help thinking that you have made a mistake in settling my Accounts if I should be mistaken I will be the more obliged to you if you will inform me in what manner case so that I may point out a method of Righting myself in the whole I have stated & settled the matter according to the best of my Knowledge as followeth and hope you will aright the mistakes any you find Viz. My Pay due to me is from the 1.^st September 1776 to the first of January 1777 at Ten Pounds P Mo. the Rations a £3..15 P Mo. Adding the whole together comes to £55..0..0 My Pay from the 1.^st of January 1777 to the 10.^th of May 1778 is sixteen Months & Ten Days at fifteen Pounds 336..17..6 P Mo. the Rations at 3/9 P Day is in the whole Concluded to the amount of — — — £391..17..6 Memorandum of what I have received from the States according to the best of my memory if wrong you will please to Rectify. Received of Col. Miles in Oct^r 1777 when it was 3 for one the sum of one hundred pounds which according to Depreciation amounts to — — — — — — — — — — — £33..6..8 Received from Col. Atlee in Sept^r 1778 when five for one the Sum of 250ls amounting to — 50..0..0 Myself D^r to the State in York Money 92 L. which is about £47.. 6..8 our State Money 87.. 6.. 3 Gave M^r Elias Boudenot a Receipt for 20 dols in May 1778 when it was five for one amount to — 1.. 10..0 Rec^d of Col. Jos. Howell a Certificate for 1288¾ doll^s amounting to — — — — — — 48..0..9 £ 220..3..0 Balance Due me Philad^a Feb^y 6.^th 1785. Captain Head will present you with the Accounts of the Officers of Penn^a & New Jersey, also those for the non Commission Officers & privates of N. York. N. Jersey, Pennsylvania & Delaware late belonging to the Legion commanded Lt Col. Lee the Account of Subsistence of the Officers I sent you last Post. you will observe there is no Roll for N York prior to the 1 Jan^y 1782 As I am inform'd that state makes up the pay of their Officers and Soldiers to that period. There were no regular returns made to the war Office of that Legion the musters of 1781 are all wanting and the latest in my possession were taken in March 1783. I have therefore been guided by the Old musters of 1780 for the commencement of pay the pay Roll herewith Inclos'd