have been lost during the war; We conceive there are Resolutions of Congress upon that subject to guide you in the settlement of accounts — Or should any other difficulties occur to prevent your being able to adjust them — I shall be obliged to you to write me upon the subject by the return of Cap^t Etholm stating them fully together with your opinion what he should do or where he should apply to have them settled as this alone brought him from Carolina and it would be extremely inconvenient and expensive to him to remain longer at the northward than was absolutely necessary — Your attention to this affair will very much oblige the Delegates of South Carolina and particularly your humble Joseph Howell Servant Chas Pinckney Dear Sir Annapolis May 5. 1785 In making entries from the accounts you lately transmitted against officers of this line who have been prisoners — There appears the sum of 2,000 and 2500 dollars charged Col. Ramsey twice at the same date — a Query thence arises whether it is not a mistake in taking the abstract — please inform me by next opportunity — Inclosed is a letter for M^r Pierce which I wish you to convey to him as soon as he arrives — I subjoin a copy of a Paragraph Containd in a letter from M^r Dunscomb received this day, and as I am ignorant where to direct to the Agent of Moylands Regiment beg you will execute M^r Dunscomb's wishes. If I do not misapprehend his meaning it is [underline: final settlements] to which he alludes when he mentions the Officers receiving Depreciation certificates &c — at Philadelphia — and that he wishes the agent to retain all Certificates in his hands belonging to Soldiers of the Virginia Quota Serving in that corps — as the State has Setted with them up to January 1782 and in some instances he has certified the remainder due them ys. Jn. White Extract refer'd to above: " If you know any thing of the officer of Moylan's Regiment " Who received the certificates for depreciation &c " at Philadelphia be please to write him, and ask " information, if he intends for this place soon " or at all, if not immediately, would it not " be proper for him to send me all of this State — " Several have applied but from the above " information denied a Settlement — Tho before it arrived many had Setted with the " State and myself for all due, at any rate you will " enquire the Officer out and inform him that this State " has settled for depreciation &c to those of the Regiment " that were citizens of it, consequently he must retain all " those in his hands — N.B. Though M^r. Dunscomb does not mention the particular period to which Virginia has settled with the above men, I presume it must be to Jan^y 1. 1782 as their depreciation settlements extend to that time, or in other words they have Assumed the payment of their line on Account of the United States up to that period — Joseph Howell Jun^r. John White Dear Howell Annapolis May 3. 85 I did not receive your favor of the 11^th of April, until the first of May — it had been laying in the post Office, it seems, some Days before I had notice of its being there. I thank you for your exertions in the business it treated of — but I must beg leave to observe, that you do not seem to have entered into the spirit of the enquiry. Bunner, as he avows the signature of the Discharge Transmitted to you, will hardly