Philadelphia Dec. 10. 1785. Dear Sir, I take this opportunity, by Cap^t Bird to write you a few lines to beg you the favor of you to take the trouble, to settle that note, that I sent the General by Captain Blake, which deft of M^r Saunders is three Months pay, which I allowed him in my accounts for the same, and as the other Affairs I did, he said, to do me justice, he would give me an order on the same, and desire the General to pay it, and give him a rect of so doing &that I take it kind if you will please to me righted in the affair, and send me the money, as a pointless to him know the result. Jonathan Smith Cap. Howell. New York January 16. 1786. Dear Sir, Your favor of the 6^th Inst. reached me on thursday last, and would have been answered by the first of Yesterday if I could have compleated the enquiries necessary to grant a Certificate for David Murray, which was done and endorsed — there is a David Murray of Gruble Co. inlisted the 24 April 1777. but I suppose deserted in August following as he is not on the Rolls of that, several succeeding Months. M^r Buer arrived on the 4^th Inst. and has been very busy in Col. Neel's affair — he expects to compleat the business today, so that I expect you will receive a packet from him, by the same post that conveys this — as soon as leisure will permit, I will take up the Act^s of Cap^t Thompson. Cap. M. M. Laumale