222 extend — in last charge account you in that account is a sum which appears that you have been drawn — [undecipherable] your subsistence of [undecipherable] to August 1783 which applicable to your abolition is set out — has been drawn — [undecipherable: Price] Co: Cha: Harrison New York January 2^d 1797 Dear Sir, the enclosed Letter I wish you to send & forward to Colonel Harrison who I left from in your [undecipherable] — Your Letter of December 22^d is received — It appears at first sight singular that the Officers which retired in 1779 should not be allowed their Commissions and that Colonel [undecipherable] who confirms that he left the Service in the same year without signing a change & submitting to the allowance for the want of the Muster Rolls of his Account now with you in the last Month in 1779 — I am unable to ascertain the merits of his claim, it is necessary for him to prove from this evidence or some other original record made at the time, in what manner he left the Service and then I shall be able to determine whether his claims can be granted without a reference of it to Congress. The accounts of John Foster John Reasons & John M^cDonnell have 225 been examined, the entries in them are not proper, nor an entry by them in your favor. The certificates for which you have receipted I shall deliver to your Brother — Sam: [undecipherable: J. Price] Andrew Dunscomb Esquire Sir, New York January 1^st 1797 A certificate such as you have described has been issued by me with a further check that the water mark is a letter G & struck to, I have the instruction of [undecipherable] Council to determine whether it is the same or not, as the persons who alter these securities can as well alter them, so as to resemble the description of genuine certificates throughout as that they can alter only the [undecipherable] which has generally been the case — W^m Imlay Esq: Sam: J.P. Sir, New York February 3^d 1797 The certificate which you requested is inclosed, it is as full as the Returns lodged in this Office will permit — Sam: J Price Ben^j: Heywood Esq^r