Providence 20 March 85 Sir By the inclosed Resolution of Congress, you will observe, that the officers of the Army who left Service in consequence of a Resolve of y^e 31^st December 1781, are equally entitled to half pay, or Commutation, as there who were doing so before that time, & continued to the close of the Wars. We therefore request, if you are Vested with sufficient Authority, that you will make out the Certificates for the ballance that you may find due to us, and deliver them to Mess^rs Hewes & Anthony, Merchants Philadelphia, who have Orders from you for them— The ballance due to each of us [undecipherable] Statements of our Accounts forwarded us by M. Pierce, some time ago is Three thousand six hundred Dollars. William Peck [undecipherable] Silas Talbot [undecipherable] Jes. Howell Jun^r Charleston S^o. Carolina 31 March 85 Dear Sir Yours of the 7^th. Ins^t. with the enclosures, I have received — Mr. Pierce arrived here on the 18 Ins^t & set out for Savannah the 4^th Ins^t. in his last letter of the 22^nd. Ins^t. to me he says my Attention here will be for a long time — I have to take up the Accounts from August 1780, and to do the whole myself; you may not therefore expect me very soon, and when I do come my stay must be of course the shorter — On examining the Charges against this Line extracted from the Pay Office Books, I find