[endorsement notation top right: Dec 7. 1796 — 21322] D^r Sir Agreeably to your obliging proffer I find on my not to [have] time [since] after making such corrections as you have pointed out. The Bearer M^r Gardner having [himself] in town has undertaken the trouble of calling on you for the final Settlement now, if you yet had time to make it out or if not and it could be consistently done while M^r Gardner could wait a safer conveyance could not offer. The Auditor says that he cannot [undecipherable] like the remainder of Pay as my father did before any depreciation was allowed it. In my last I enclosed a certificate of Col Morgan's this having been proved to the first of Dec^r 1779 consequently before. that time I commit both to that paymaster for a form that is the time of his death on the 4^th Jan. 1778 the Auditor thinks [undecipherable] your [undecipherable] acting