[134] object worthy your attention you had better make a trip to New York, and you may rest assured to receive every assistance in the power of Sir Your very H^ble Ser^vt Joseph Howell Jr^r Cap. And^w Walker Philadelphia 15 Nov: 1785. D^r You will oblige me much by sending an answer as soon as your business will permit to the following Questions — Captain Robert Pilton has been Stop'd 200 Dollars, which I have an order to recieve and has informed me that he is not in Debt to Hartley — he is in Debt on the [undecipherable: probable reading "commissary"] service to this State — Edward Evans was a Soldier in the [undecipherable] regiment and Col. Hay's Corps in 1778 — he is dead & his relations say he was in the 6^th in 1781 and went to the Southern Army — I should imagine the rolls of the 6^th will point out what has become of him — James Smith a Soldier of the 10^th was a prisoner 9 months in the year 1780 and informs me that he has not been accounted with [undecipherable] pay for said time and prays to know how he is to get [undecipherable] — I have promised to give answers to all these questions in hopes that you could point out the way direct. I am D^r Yours with respect &c Jos: Howell Dep^y [undecipherable] Hampton.