New York 19^th April 1796 Sir Your claim for stoppings made out of the pay of the Non Commissioned Officers and Privates of your Company has been considered — I have no desire to refuse the allowance of any demands made by a Gentleman of honor but I must prefer the admission of this for the following reasons — That the Account having arisen so long back as 1776 is attended with all the disadvantages arising from so long a period — and therefore impossible to have such lights thrown on it as might have been the case, had it been presented and stated earlier, and at this time it is unknown how many demands of this is admitted may be produced of the same nature, nor what circumstances they may be attended with indeed when this account shall be examined it appears to me that it will be necessary for you to shew if possible by certificate the amount of clothing and other [undecipherable] which ought to be borne by [undecipherable] the same, and the accounts and acknowledgments from the [undecipherable] of the monies you have paid to them on account, or at [undecipherable] orders for the respective balances which may be yet due from you wish to recover them. Your papers and accounts are lodged in my Office and therefore you will not be [undecipherable] by waiting for a further opportunity. [signed: SP] Col Caleb North } New York April 19, 1786 Sir I have examined your accounts, and paid every attention to your claim that your situations as a foreigner and an Officer who has left his all in the service of this country requires— I have paid you your pay — your demand for transportation of your company and your charges for mounting &c in 1777— The sum of 1479[undecipherable] livres yet stands charged against you — opposed to which you have presented the Account of your Company in 1776 raised in Canada, certified by General Hazen and attested to by yourself— This account Gen'l Hazen informs me was stated between him and you in August 1776 and that you then gave him your receipt for this sum being the supposed amount of your advance. But the present account now presented by you of advances made in Canada