the before it arrived many had settled 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 obtain all " those in his hands —— N.B. Though M^r Dunscombe 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 obtained the payment of their line on Account of the United States up to that period John White Joseph Howell Jun^r Dear Howell Annapolis May 3. 83 Did not receive your favor of the 11^th of April, until the last of May — it had been laying in the post Office, it seems some Days before I had notice of its be- ing 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: Brunner, as he avows the signature of the Discharge transmitted to you, will hardly find Excuse for putting his Name to the Discharge of that Man and many others, who are not found on the Musters in all the Year 1779. The List I sent you contains the Names of Thirty five of these Men, and the greatest part if not all of the discharges by which they obtained Depreciation are signed with his [undecipherable] name. I have taken David Levy and Jack Harris of the Black List, in consequence of the Information you gave me in your last. The Pay Rolls you sent me are compared with the Musters formerly sent to M^r White, and by which I made out the list of Frauds transmitted in my last, and they exactly agree. Enclosed send you the [undecipherable] M^r Nichols wants — be pleased to present the same with my respects & Compliments to him — had these communications had been sooner thought of, much error and rascal- ity would then have been prevented. Nicholas Stover and Peter or Philip Shroover, stand in my list as Men discharged in 1779 — According to the prin- ciple of not granting Depreciation to Soldiers discharg- ed before the 10^th of April 1780 these Men as a remedy for them must have obtained discharges as having been Maryland Soldiers, for the purpose of defrauding this State. They were mustered as [Pennsylvania?]