[page torn/obscured at top] are mentioned under you and be trusted to the contrary action give be deposited in this statement — I shall be happy to hear from you not only on account of these difficulties, but also of that mentioned in my letter to M^r Wilmore I am &c J. Pierce Gov Humphreys Examined New York, Nov^r 27^th 1790. Sir, Your two letters of July 21^st and October 26^th are now to me name and I have examined your claims upon the public and find that M^r Stone for Pay master of your regiment drew from me in 1779 the sum of Seven Hundred Twenty Dollars &⁷⁰/₁₀₀ as due to you for arrears and in some years pay as a supernumerary Officer, this money is delivered on the settlement of his accounts on the 26^th of August 1770 when the money was twenty for one, as the Public do not suffer the loss of the depreciation of the money while in the hands of the Paymaster, you will be only entitled to receive the specie amount of this sum when it was received into the public Office, which being so small, I am mortified that I am obliged to give so disagreeable an information. And am with Esteem &c L^t Col^o Samuel Carlton [undecipherable] J. Pierce [Ex^o]