[Page number: 182] by the Returns that you joined the Regiment, the 10^th of May 1782, and was discharged the [undecipherable] of December following how you are deficient for three years pay, I cannot ascertain you also mention of belonging to the 12 Regiment of Pennsylvania at the time you was transferred, if the Transfer was on the day above mentioned you certainly could have belonged to the 12^th Regiment; as that Corps did not exist at the time, neither has it since the 1^st Jan 1778 — from these circumstances it will be necessary that some Substantial proof be produced of your being in actual Service for the time mentioned, before any thing, now can be obtained — I am Sir your's J Howell Aug [undecipherable] C M^r Robert Anderson New York, November the 4^th 1785. Dear Sir — I have not had leisure to answer your favor of the [undecipherable] Instant sooner, Inclosed is the certificate for 267[undecipherable] dollars with a certificate from the Register and one from me, which I flatter myself will answer every purpose — but if you still wish to have it made in the Name of the Commonwealth you will please to get M^r Nicholson to corroborate what I have expressed and it then can be done but not without it — as this is the usual mode of transacting business at the Treasury, I now wait the [undecipherable] of hearing from you — M^r Penn informs me that he has not heard any further of your business present my compliments to Cap. [undecipherable] and inform him that Cap. [undecipherable] has not yet returned from [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Col. [undecipherable] [undecipherable] & [undecipherable]