[Copy] New York, November 10, 1785 To Walley Dunning & Walley Gentlemen Your letter of the 11^th [undecipherable: ult^o] is before me — I am unhappy that the Papers, including your letters to me respecting the accounts against your [undecipherable: deliveries] mislaid, or perhaps lost on [strikethrough: our] removing to this Town, as one of the Clients was burnt on the road. It will be impossible to make my credits yours, the State on the settlement with the here, or to pass having the business farther than what I have done already without the copies of your several accounts and letters — The charges against the regiments always referring to them for support and illustration — But to give you as compleat as possible a [undecipherable: Idea] of the stoppages I have made, I have extracted from my Books the names of each Officer and the sum deducted for the State, that you may compare the same with your accounts against the [strikethrough: Officer] [undecipherable: turn] and determine what part of your charges remain unaccounted for. You may be assured that their wherever their is a difference, it must have arisen from my not having it in my power to make the stoppages. Mess^rs Dunning & Walley