[211] ...cause [undecipherable] to request you to obtain their certificates in your hands that [undecipherable] may be received As I cannot do this without the certificates now in your hands and the [payment?] of advances made by Pensylvania and Virginia I must request that you will be pleased to deliver them certificates to some trusty person coming to New York to whom I will receipt for them — and that you will forward to me an account of your payments to these [Person?] which will oblige dear Sir &c Pierce John Nicholson Esquire New York January 2^d 1787 Sir, It is found that a misunderstanding has arisen in the Office of Accounts in the States of Pennsylvania & Virginia by both of these States admitting those Officers and Soldiers of Colonel Moylands Regiment that were originally inhabitants of Virginia and in some instances both of them settling their depreciation accounts and the latter had also made a settlement of pay & subsistence to the first of January 1782 for some of these Officers. and as I did in my settlement with the Regiment take up theirs