[Concerned Refusing their Certificates] I inclose you as I promised [undecipherable] Coates and Henry Wells depositions with the Certificates annexed to them, you will find that Bacon bought them of one Haynes of Havener and that Haynes bought them of the [undecipherable] mentioned Norris. I have Inclosed to the Attorney General the depositions respecting Barnes Emma & Tudor and am well convinced that there has been rascality among them. I wish you to be so good as to furnish the Attorney General with such information as may have come to your knowledge. Your Receipt from Doct. Foster I shall return to you again — it is of no Consequence as he has passed the amount in his Accounts to your Credit — Your Vouchers are wanting by Walker, who I told he would write you the Subject I am Sir, Samuel Barrett Esquire Sir New York August 30^th 1786 I have Considered the Claim of [undecipherable] Cicely — there is sufficient evidence of his Services to the 14 January 1781 the time he received his furlough. after this the returns and Musters of the Regiment as far as they can be found are totally Silent in respect to him. but from the necessity that every Officer who held a commission in the Service Should rejoin his Corps at the Commencement of each Campaign — the Proclamations issued for that Purpose. I am induced to Suppose that M^r Cicely considered himself as deranged or discharged from the Service. I believe that a furlough of the Nature of his, which was a Permission of Absence until further orders must not be understood for Life; but only a reasonable time which is when the Regiment again Commenced actual duty. that there orders were Particularly given we have no Positive Proof. the Officers who Commanded him as well as their orderly Books being long since not to be come at. but his Name being discontinued in the Returns and Musters is a Circumstance [that] could not have happened unless he had resigned or was dismissed under some Resolution of Congress. it is therefore my Opinion that to Justify me in issuing him any Pay after the date of his furlough that he Should prove his Continuance after that Period. and the Manner in which he left the Service. it may be necessary to inform you that by a Muster made by the Agent & Paymaster in the Settlement of the Accounts of Col^r Armonds Legion. M^r Cicely is Entered as having Left the Regiment some time in 1781. Honorable M^r White I am Sir in Congress