New York November 11^th 1786 Dear Sir, Your letter of the 4^th instant to M^r Pierce and the one of the 5^th to me was duly received, apprehending you have not received my letter of the 18^th Ultimo I take the liberty to inclose a duplicate as also an Extract of my letter of the same date to M^r Nicholson on the subject of your Claim— You will please to wait on M^r Nicholson who will shew you the pay Roll alluded to in my letters which I presume will fully satisfy you that Colonel Haas was accountable to his Officers for the balance of pay & due them and their Men and that the United States are entirely exonerated from any and all demands which the Regiment under his command might have had against them— I am &c. Joseph Howell Jun^r Col^l Will^m Williams