depositions enclosed by the last post that a Warrant may be found to Apprehend him of he Should be heard of but my Opinion is that he has had some information from N. York, which has caused him either to secret himself or to go to his Comrades in N. Hampshire & will not be found — I have the Honor to be — &c Honorable Board of Treasury — Gentlemen Exeter N. Hampshire July 31^st 1786 I left Boston on friday last and reached this place on Saturday, on Consulting the Authority here, I was advised to remain as Secret as possible and procure further evidence than that of Judge Sullivan before I arrested Morrill for his Character as an Honest man being undisputed and he being a Selectman and a Man of some Consequence in the Town it was thought that some other concerning Circumstances ought further to be produced on which I sent for a Cap^t Fogg who assisted him not only in the Settlement of the Accounts of the New Hampshire Line in my Office but also in delivering the Certificates to the Officers & Soldiers. him I found to have heard of Morrill being suspected in Boston and he informed me that M. had proposed to him while at my Office the taking of some of my Blank Papers, as he said it might be of future Service, that on Fogg's Expressing his disapprobation of the Measure, Morrill desisted &c & and I heard no more of it, nor did he suppose he had taken any of this paper untill he had heard of his being suspected in Boston soon after this conversation I received by Express from Boston the Original of the Enclosed deposition which puts the fact beyond the possibility of doubt. I brought also some of the forged Bills with me on shewing them to the Gentlemen in Office here, they immediately pitched on a Cap^t Gray of the same Town with Morrill as the Writer. I went yesterday Morning before day to the President of the State who had previously been the Attorney General — this I did at the request of the Gentlemen here with whom I conversed — on shewing him one of the forged Certificates he immediately pitched on Gray as the Writer — and advised the Apprehending & Securing him with all the Warrant has been issued and the Sherriffe who was 15 Miles from this place has come up and has gone since yesterday after the persons who live about 30 Miles from this. I hope that he will return soon enough to enable me to inform the Board in this Letter of his Success. It has been unfortunate that the whole of my progress that my Official name was too well known and every inquiry and Person Apprehended was supposed to arise from me; there have been so many Officers & Soldiers & Warants in the Army who are now Scattered thro every Part of the Country, that I have found it impossible to be