Subsistance as we have not sufficient information to form any Opinion respecting their propriety — Dependant of the Officers attestation — but the principable Obstruction is the total want of Fact in the Contendence funds which impedes every Exertion made to do the late Army Justice. Sam. P. John Gafsaway Esq^r --- Sir New York Sept. 22^d 1786 I am inform'd that John Phelon the Person I was in pursuit of has returned and taken up in Boston as his return may be Considered measures to brave any inquiries or trials which may be made respecting him. I have taken [strikethrough: the] the Liberty to Inclose you the deposition from the Suppression of him arose, and they do not amount to such Evidence as will Convict him, yet I am of Opinion that his Knowledge of the Checks of the Office and his Capacity to do a Mischief is such as will enduce your Government to take Exceeding good Care of him to prevent the ill Consequences in which he is guilty — and his hiding the Papers or his materials Evidence the fear of a Search. A Letter was sent to him from some unknown Person at New York within three days after the discovery was made there, which Letter was Inclosed in a blank Cover to Lieut Howes of Boston — and was received by Phelon on Saturday following. the time it was — written, on which Phelon packed up whole baggage of every kind and prepared the same day to set off on his Journey, as he said to Rhode Island. he was however persuaded to stay.