New York, May 18^th 1786 I intended to have seen you at New haven this month on a visit to my Friends in Connecticut, but my business prevents. There is now always representation in Congress, and your Claims may perhaps be as properly determined now as at another time, and as I am responsible for the Sum in your hands I am anxious that it should lay much longer in this situation — I therefore think it best to obtain a Verdict for the balance in your hands, or a decided act of Congress allowing or disallowing your pretensions — the former I think the best, because the public may then lay out of the money, untill they think proper to come to a decision; for which reason I have enclosed your Accounts current formerly transmitted you, and the continuance of them since you left the Army, the final balance agrees with your stating unto a few Dollars, which difference were principally from deductions made in the Comptrollers Office on the settlements of your Accounts, and which cannot be lost. Your balance as stated by you was Three thousand two hundred & ninety nine Dollars ⅔ys my balance before the errors were added was Three thousand three hundred & thirty eight Dollars ⅔ys the errors amount to Thirty seven Dollars ⅔ys which