New York, May 17^th 1786 [To] I have received the subject of your letter of the 21^st of November last, and attended to the papers contained therein, as your Certificate mentions that a part of your papers and money were borrowed. I cannot give you my opinion until I am furnished with the remaining papers to they are full or not, and with your Account Current particularizing your different payments as accurately as possible. The sum of money which remained in your hands upon the loss of your papers, the sum received after their loss, and your Vouchers for the disposal of the same, or your approbation that it be charged to your Account, — on this Account Current I wish for your declaration, that the stating contained in it is just and true, that you have no further means of information, that all your papers respecting the business are given up and that you have not directly or indirectly appropriated to your own use any part of the public monies committed to your charge as Paymaster to the Regiment. In order to enable you to make this stating I have inclosed to you a transcript from the public Books of the monies charged to your Account. [H^on Edward Nicley?]