New York 2 Nov. 1785 Sir I have received your account of the Negotiation. I know so much that every part of your report is justifiable, if any were to blame he is justified to have the evidence. That I may be on the whole have not appear clear, and recurring to the War Office and the Treasury Board. I design to make out a second account on each of the different class of affairs — the first, those that were charged to continue and in consequence thereof remaining accounts in the service to the end of the war — the second those that were charged and when pay they were raised — the third those that were charged and were paid afterwards for reasons of record against their account — I [undecipherable] from the same that were arranged, but not entitled to pay on other terms than are now the rules you will think give us the last [?] class of the different claims of the officers — You mention your last return, made in October of the regimental staff, from which I suppose there is meant to be paid — in your first report there were a number of officers made up for pay, whose names were omitted in your last return, for [undecipherable] reasons (on No. 3) I wish to know if this is intentional and whether they are to be included, and on the contrary where mention of officers not noted in the first report, which I suppose arises from information received from the Army. There are a class of officers I cannot determine, being arranged or discharged on an abset for in rights they were given either from wounds, from suffering, or being absent, as I understand my friends, to compleat that of those found —