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 D'Haas was accountable to his Officers for the balance of pay &c 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^o Will^m Williams Office of Army Accounts New York November 13^th 1786 Dear Sir— Your favors of the 7^th instant did not reach me untill this day — on an examination of the registers filed in This Office I find that James Armstrong was a Colonel in the North Carolina line and received the Certificate N^o 80362) you make mention of from M^r Ebenizer Jackson Ass^t Commissioner for that State it being a part of his Commutation— Cap^t Armstrong of Lee's Legion was settled with for his Commutation at Philadel^a and received three Certificates N^o 67138. 39 & 67440 of one thousand dollars each those Certificates were indorsed by me as was generally the case of Individual settlements when they were of the Quota of Pennsylvania: I wish you may soon be enabled to give me the information required in my letter which remains unanswered as it is much wanted— I am &c Joseph Howell J^r John Nicholson Esq^r New York November 30^th 1786. Dear Sir The enclosed Letter to Col^o Wood M^r Pierce requests you will be pleased to forward by some safe conveyance as soon as possible— I beg to remind you of your Promise of forwarding the Charges against Col. Becker Major Benedict &c &c they are greatly wanted