of Congress who [undecipherable] you mention in your letter of Oct[undecipherable] [undecipherable] that letter be forwarded, when they will be considered and admitted as applications [undecipherable] shall be [undecipherable] proper. Since at return of the pay due to the Virginia Officers exep[t?] below the [undecipherable] notes are as on this State will soon [undecipherable] be sent for his payment. The nation account attended with almost insurmountable difficulties and great uncertainty has not yet been laid before Congress — I want your original papers, the returns, mileages, arrangements, and the receipts you took for the certificates issued to the men, when you come or can come by a safe opportunity I wish you to forward these for person— I am making out the certificates for the men, which you required might be forwarded, but find I shall not be able to send them by this conveyance — Yours &c H. Pierce Andrew Dunscomb Esq^r [Ed.] New York, November 28^th 1786 Dear Sir Your letter of the 18^th requesting a stating of the accounts of the State of Connecticut [undecipherable] and shall be attended to. I am at a loss, however, whether you have intended to request all the accounts of the State extracted from the different Officers, only those which have risen in mine. Inclosed is an original Receipt given by Jn^o. Phillips and John Thomas for