Charleston So. Carolina 31 March 85 Dear Sir Yours of the 7th Ins.t with the enclosures I have received [undecipherable] Mr. Pierce arrived here on the 18 Feby. & set out for Savannah the 4th Ins.t.. in his last letter of the 22nd 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

very 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

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 Mr Betts to make it out & forward it by return of strong. Geo. Reid Jos. Howell Jun.r