Decem 22d 17[?] Copied New York December 22d 1786 Sir As I understand the nature of your claim for the pay of these Companies commanded by Mes. Habersham, it carried from your purdues any from the Soldiers their pay, [undecipherable] certificate that as Lines of the State [undecipherable] in order that he should be considered as payment for confiscated property, that I should pass the same there my Office. _ Mr. Wercat made an application to me for that purpose when I was in Georgia, but on objection as one that the receipts of the men were [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] the payment _ As Mr. Wercat will deliver these with the other originals [undecipherable] into your or any other persons hands, with an [undecipherable] from the [undecipherable] of the State to deliver the certificate I will adjust the account and place the amount of the same to the credit of the State in the same manner as I have done the other advances [undecipherable] to the line. but I cannot now [undecipherable] consider this as the demand of an individual, for the State [undecipherable] assumed it, the resolutions of Congress as they now sland will not admit of an alteration. I am sir J. Pierce

Jhn. Morrill Esquire