Sir New York June 23^d 1786. I have to Acknowledge the receipt of your Letter of the 16 Ult° and have attended to the Claims you have made in behalf of L^t Col° John Stirk the Regiment to which he belonged being paid by the State, it is not in my power to determine what deficiencies may yet be remaining to be granted to him. The Supposition is that he as well as the Regt drew their pay regularly as it became due and nothing now remains but the depreciation which agreeably to the regulations of Congress cannot be made up being out of the Service prior to any promise of that Nature. I cannot therefore determine on the former untill I have the Certificates that respect the Regimental pay and the latter my instructions do not warrant to admit I am now in hopes that the month of October or November to see you in Georgia — I am J.P. Col° Stirk Dear Sir Office of Army Accounts New York June 17. 1786. Your Letter of the 6 Instant, together with Your Vouchers & Papers are arrived in Safety. The Certificates sent on are agreeable to your Letter that is I have received 464 erased Certificates never issued 38 Issued Wrong taken in and Erased and the Margins of Certificates from N° 87.401. to 88.450— I find however that you have returned in your Register N° 87. 915 as never Issued by you, and you have said the same on the Margin of the Certificate against that Number, which makes one more blank which ought to have been Returned. to give you a Clear Stating of this Mistake. I have Enclosed you the Acco Current of your Certificate paper. I have Charged you with the Certificates rec^d and also the Blanks left in your Register on the other Side of the Account. I have credited you with your Issues including the Blanks, and then passed to your Credit the Certificates returned— I have examined each Number and find the one deficient to be N° 87. 915. When I go out of Office there will undoubtedly be some Person who will be Authorised to receive such demands as may arise in Consequence of Claims lodged with me, it will take a Considerable time however before I can deliver up my Business. If the Widow & Orphans of D. Quarles cannot Obtain the 7 years half pay from the State, I believe an Application to Congress will be fruitless, as Congress have Committed the whole of this Business to the States and will not interfere in their Arrangements. as it is not my duty to settle [undecipherable] this Claim, it will Certainly unless I have a Resolution of Congress directing me, be out of my Power to re Issue my Certificates Jos. Owens a Soldier in Col° Lee's Corps you have returned as of the quota of Virginia— I find him also as of the Maryland Quota— can you find with Certainty whether he settled his depreciation and pay in the State of Virginia. If the Muster Rolls and Auditors Papers sent the State and — yourself can be sent on by Water, in the Packet, we shall be glad, as they are wanting to Compleat the Accounts of the Army and the State. — I am J.P. Andrew Dunscomb Esquire Gentlemen Office of Army Accounts. June 23^d 1786. M^r Richard Lloyd who has Acted as Agent to the Canadian Regiment having a Claim on the United States for his Services. I beg Leave to make the following Statement of his Business transacted by him. He Settled the Accounts for the year 1781 of 43 Officers & 512 Men. for the year 1782. of 36 Officers & 693 Men for the year 1783. of 36 Officers & 647 Men & the Commutation and gratuity. he received from me in March 1784 Certificates for the Non Commissioned Officers & privates amounting to 199.054 ²²/90 Dollars. and in May & June afterwards to the Amount of 27.490 ³⁰/ Dollars. he drew his pay in the Regiment to the 2^d of November 1783. his Subsistence as a Captain to the 1^st of July 1784 the privates whom he had Certificates to distribute in one of the years were about 163 Canadians. 120 Pennsylvanians. 24 Men belonging to N. York. 24 to the State of Massachusetts. 12 to Connecticut. 75 to Delaware. 9 to N. Jersey. 37 to Maryland. 17 to N. Hampshire & 70 that [interlined: did not] belong to any State. about the first of April last he Exhibited his Accounts of Issues & delivered up to me 25.864 Dollars in Certificates which remained in his hands, and there is [remainder continues]