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 Etchelein 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 Servant Joseph Howell Cha^s Pinckney Dear Sir Anapolis 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 2000 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 first opportunity — Inclosed is a letter for M^r Pierce which I wish you to convey to him as soon as he arrives — I suboin a copy of a Paragraph Containd in a letter from M^r Dunscomb received this day, and as Sim was rant where to direct to the Agent of Marylands Regiment by you will execute M^r Dunscomb's wishes, if I do not misapprehend his meaning it is 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 — at the State has Settled with them up to January 1782 — and in some instances he has certified the Remainder due them y^rs J^{n o} White Extract copied to Above — " If you know any thing of the office of Marylands Regiment " Who received the certificates for depreciation &c " at Philadelphia 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 delay'd a Settlement — Tho