Sir. Burlington County New Jersey Dec. 30^th 1786 In Consequence of your letter to M^r Symms one of our late Delegates in Congress with your reasonings upon my Letter to that Gentleman previous thereto — with Complain-ings M^r Symms was Pleased to Honor me with. — The Objections you make to my demands, I hope will be removed If you will be so good as to Reconsider the whole matter respecting my accounts — (my vouchers being in your office) You have then stated my accounts. — In the year 1777 I am Charged with 11.600 dollars, the amount of my Vouchers in that year 14.468 ¼ Dollars the Allowance for Recruiting my Regt you say is as follows — the whole of the men that were Raised that year was 619 those Bounties amount to 10.266 Dollars, Continues to the officers 634 Dollars some Incidental Expenses which will probably amount to 556 Dollars. — which makes up the Sum of 11.800 Dollars which I am Charged with. — The above Statement Seems to Balance the accounts though very unfavourable to me as well as unjust. But whether all the Monthly Rolls for that whole year are in your office or not I cannot Determine, But further think they are not. Also the Number of men that Served Cannot be determined, as Some of the officers were on the recruiting Service nearly the whole year and as we Served In or near our own State, Bounties free — [undecipherable] offered and were never rejected. If a Bounty could be raised in the Regt. — Another —