agreeably to the rules adopted, have received the said sum at Thirty for one — M^r Schwink's accounts are now closed and all the monies charged him accounted for Jones^r [J. Nicholson Esquire] J Howell J^r Philadelphia 14^th July 1786. Sir, As a part of my accounts with the U States remain unsettled, owing to a charge made against me by Colonel Francis Johnston (which I make no doubt you recollect) of 1200 dollars received from him, a part of which by his directions I paid to the Officers and Soldiers as pay from 15 March to June 1777 and the ballance I returned to him — Wherefore I thought that account totally settled, until informed by you to the contrary — On the settlement of my account as Representee By Mor I left most of the vouchers for expenditures of the above sum, with my others in the hands of yourself and James Johnston Esq^r the then Auditors — As there is money due me by the U States I cannot