now sells for about ⅔ in the Pound — and that the danger of establishing a precedent for payments a bove on those certificates, will prevent any success that you would other wise meet with on an application to Congress for that purpose, there being so many persons who are equally entitled, that it is impossible to extend justice to one a part, [without partiality] H.P. The Rev M^r Boyd } New York June 8. 1786 Sir I do not find that M^r Wesley is entitled to the [undecipherable] mentioned in your^s of the 29^th Ulto. it will therefore be necessary for him to produce evidence to support his claim before it can be admitted H.P. M^r Theodorus Barkley } Office of Army Accounts June 8. 1786 Dear Sir I enclose you the Certificates due to Col Adams for which his brother has receipt to me — I have retained those and enclose them to you as I find charges against the Colonel which I did not know [for] certainty that you was possessed of when you forwarded