[To M^r Gorham January 28 1786] [Copied] [National Archives stamp] New York January 28 1786 Sir The Proprietors of the Virginia Payments not having [undecipherable] few accounts, to the Regiment and tracing [undecipherable] during their pay to the same until Aug 30 1785 in account without ascertaining [undecipherable] particular [undecipherable] it would be necessary — [undecipherable] you in order that the [undecipherable] the army has assented to charge the nominal pay to the men, monthly unless they probably did, or [undecipherable] have received it — as the [undecipherable] st[?] [undecipherable] 1789. The Pay and [undecipherable] late Dep^t. [undecipherable] Nov[undecipherable] Dec[undecipherable] 1789 Pay — on [undecipherable] 7^th 1788 — [undecipherable] April [undecipherable] [undecipherable] pay — or the 20^th of July, [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] Dec[undecipherable] 1789 — the pay [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — to Oct[undecipherable] 31 1788 — 1789 — March 10 — the pay from Nov 1788 [undecipherable] March — in [undecipherable] by the pay from [undecipherable] [undecipherable] 1 1789 — Sept[undecipherable] 1789 — the [undecipherable] July 1789 pay — [undecipherable] the pay [undecipherable] from [undecipherable] 1^st [undecipherable] Dec 31 1789 — after which the Regiment did not show any regular pay — and if any advances have been made [undecipherable] knowledge of them [undecipherable] with the Proprietors, is to [undecipherable] latter [undecipherable] the cop[undecipherable] [undecipherable] — if you charge the most [undecipherable] recently pay when the Proprietors received it [undecipherable] with sufficiently [undecipherable] the United States the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] on the first day of January [undecipherable] in [undecipherable] to assure them [undecipherable] pay commenced in this office from that day and now fully proved afterwards by the United States their names as returned to me are as follows — Sery Amos Ames ✓ Priv Atett Davis ✓ Sen [undecipherable] Abel Davis Jun ✓ Priv Ben Neall [undecipherable] ✓ Winthrow Thurston ✓ Jactaus Presley Volunteers ✓ Abner [undecipherable] ✓ Drum [undecipherable] Talbi[undecipherable] ✓ Priv [*] Elisha Browne ✓ [undecipherable] Boles [undecipherable] ✓ Eyres Gates ✓ Infer [undecipherable] [undecipherable] ✓ Priv Wm [undecipherable]ledon ✓ [undecipherable] Hayleton ✓ Josiah [undecipherable] ✓ I am Sir your Obed[ien]t [Servant]