New York August 30. 1786

Gentlemen; On my return to Boston from New Hampshire I was informed that Jno Phelan the confidential clerk in my office who is suspected to have stolen some of my certificate Paper + to have counterfieted thereon the sercurities of the United States, was seen on the Road which leads thro’ the New Hampshire Grants and that he had intimated to some of his friends that he was going to Canada, which caused me to dispatch Captain Simon Jackson to pursue him- his report of his Journey I beg leave to lay bf before the Board + to request a direction as to the steps that will now be necessary be cause to taken in apprehending Phelan. I am with great respect &

Hon Board of Treasury