Providence 30 March 85. Sir By the inclosed Resolution of Congress, you will observe, that the officers of the Army who left Service in conse=quence of a Resolve of y^e 31 of December 1781, are equally en=titled to half-pay, or Commutation, as those who were deranged before that time, or continued to the close of the War. 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 on you for them. The balance due to [underline: each] of us p^r Statement of our Accounts, forwarded us by M^r Pierce, some time ago is Three thousand six hundred Dollars. William Peck Colonel Silas Talbot Lt Colonel Jos. 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. M^r Pierce arrived here on the 18 Feb^y. & 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 my self; you may not therefore expect me 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 that the Specie paid in 1781 to the prisoners then in Philad^a is totally omited I think it was three Months pay & Subsistence allowed each I wish you to desire M^r Bills to make it out & forward it by return of Strong. Geo. Reid Jos. Howell Jun^r New Ark March 22. 85 Sir I am told by the treasurer of the state of New Jersey, that in your late returns to him of the Jersey line no men=tion is made of the Detached individuals in the horse, Artille=ry, Artificers, &c. and altho' the treasurer has returns of them in his own Office; yet he thinks nothing valid unless it comes from you, I am therefore induced to Apply to you in a particular manner in behalf of Major Jeremiah Bro[undecipherable] of Colonel Baldwin's Artificers and myself late a Lieu^t in the 2^nd Regiment of Artillery and will be particular=ly indebted to you to furnish him with returns of us si=milar to those of the Jersey Reg^ts. Both of us have been credited to Jersey and received our Depreciation from that State and are residents in it. Should you find this request consistant with your duty, I would thank you to send the return asked for as soon as you can make it convenient to the Treasurers Office at Trenton. W^m Pennington Jos. Howell Jun^r