Sir New Yk August 25 1786 I have received your Letter of the 15 Inst and respecting a demand from John Freeland for pay w^d did not belong to the Jersey line, it is impossible for me to inform You whether the same has been drawn or not, unless you can find the Regiment he belonged to for a research thro' the whole Papers of this Office would be attended with more expence of time than his pay is worth and some of the lineal acc^ts are not yet come into my hands The first day of this month closed the Acceptances of Claims, arising from the Army, for this Cause Freeland will be debarred from his, unless the same shall be found to be drawn by some Regimental Agent Richard Backton Esq^r Philadelphia Sam JP [Report] Office of Army Accounts. Aug. 25. 1786. The Commissioners of Settling the Accounts of the Late Army of the United States, to whom was referred the Account of the Late Major General Lord Stirling Beg Leave to Report That there appears to be the Sum of five thousand two hundred Eighty four ⁷⁰/₁₀₀ Dollars due on the Same, which Sum your Commissioners would have paid by his Certificate in the usual manner, had a legal Executor or Administrator appeared to have received it — [Received from the Inspector of the War Department, Mar. 7, 1905, R.G. 418688] JP