Decem 19. 1786 Doctor Wm. Eustice Copied Offices of Army Accounts NYork December 19 1786 Sir

That Sercices are not probably out of compiling after these as the [undecipherbale] merely complicated and as [undecipherbale] pay the commanding Officer of the [?]ment did not pay them, until April 1778. when his [undecipherable] that he went a Volunteer to [?] and he [?] pay from April 1778 to Aug. 1779. [undecipherable] from a volunteer controlled & [undecipherable] to determine, as he [undecipherable] but on the return to Boston, he was either not [undecipherable] by the public or the courtmatial [undecipherable] thought [undecipherable] not [undecipherable] in paying him, as it was considered that he was to be [undecipherable] by then [undecipherable] service as codially ment to [undecipherable] as he recognised [undecipherable] was contraty to the established [line crossed out] [undecipherable] of a [undecipherable] Officers in the he then produced from the commander in Chief only [undecipherable] paymaster of his [undecipherable] confess [undecipherable] as the continental [undecipherable] only paid him when actually imployed [undecipherable] as Congressmen never recognised him.or any arrangements according as the public Officer of the Paymaster Offices. I am of opinion he considered as a regualr Officers of the UStates or that he cares not been [undecipherable] by him received any [undecipherable] compensation there is but he has already, unless he app[?] to send obtains the approbation of Congress for it.

Doct. Eustis