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 [undecipherable: business?] prevents. There is yet 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 Credit 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 untile 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 must be lost. Your balance as stated by you was Three thousand two hundred & ninety nine Dollars 9/90 my balance before the errors were added was [Three Thousand Three hundred & thirty eight?] Dollars [9/90] the errors amount to Thirty [seven?] Dollars [9/90] which makes the balance to be Three thousand Three hundred and twenty five Dollars 9/90 I cannot determine how this difference arises I have checked my account with the vouchers and can find no error. I attempted also to prove by several ways proof in what errors the difference consisted but the difficulty was too great and I desisted. If you do not agree to the balance as now stated I wish you to come here for by [taking care?] you may undoubtedly at last find the propriety of my balance — but if you think proper to acquiesce in it I wish for your receipt for as much money on account of your pay in the service of the United States which I propose to make a charge of in my accounts and so get finally clear off — I have also enclosed you a copy of the act of Congress allowing you the money lost in your payments and wish to have your deposition on it forwarded to me Hezn Wittemon Esqu^re Pay Office New York May 18^th 1786 I have the honor to enclose you an estimate of the amount of pay due to the Marines and [undecipherable] there is also a claim for subsistence, but I am not in possession of sufficient evidence that will enable me to ascertain the extent of the demands of this nature, The Hon^ble [undecipherable] A Men[undecipherable] Office of Army Accounts N York May 19, 1786 Sir, Your letter of the 14^th Instant having arrived I now in compliance with its contents enclose you the charge which stand against you in the Books of this Office and for which it is necessary that you account — Cap^t Peter [undecipherable: Dellow?] Pay Office N York May 20^th 1786 Dear Sir I have to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of the 1^st Instant, and its enclosure, being a receipt given to Col. Warman by Cap^t John [undecipherable] for five hundred & [undecipherable] Dollars Samuel Hodgdon Esq^re Office of Army Accounts May 20^th 1786 Sir As it is not in my power to furnish you with the information requested in your letter of to day, as I consider myself bound not to give any account of the certificates issued by me, either in respect to the checks by which counterfeits were detected, or the numbers issued to the Inhabitants of any one of the States, which I have the direction of the Board of Treasury for that purpose. Gerard Bancker Esq^re Office of Army Accounts N York May 20^th 1786 Dear Sir Your letter of the 15^th is arrived — you are mistaken in respect to the necessity of the order you mention being produced prior to the last of August next — if the demand is lodged in this Office by that time the claimant cannot be precluded by waiting until he can send for his securities & Andrew Dunscomb Esq^re