New York February 5th 1787 [undecipherable] Copied New York Feby 5 1787 Sir I am to acknowledge the receipt of your Letter of the 23d instant. I cannot find that any deductions have been made on the regimental abstracts of 1786 from the pay of the Soldiers for [undecipherable] received, in conformity [undecipherable] General Miflin delivered the Men’s clothing to the Officers [undecipherable] man, and was paid for the same by then, but I cannot and I find that he has given order in hos accounts of clothing for the [undecipherable] for a quantity carried by them from the Committed at Water town to the [undecipherable] of pound 6,992.12 5 and led Marques thus Committed with clothing to the account of pound 26168 having a ballance of pound 6732 59 [undecipherable]. received from this Committed and [undecipherable] who I suppose acted for the State. but it appears on probable that the [undecipherable] is the [undecipherable] with that you mention, because that was delivered in 1875 on [undecipherable] was probably in 1786, because that it consited for in usually in shorts shoes & Hose _ and [undecipherable] that Genl. Mifflon has produced the Officers receipts for his deliveries, [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] not do if they [undecipherable] with the States. This information may however be of service if the States be [undecipherable] this Committees acted for the State. Cole Saml Brewer in an account settled by him with the Auditors of the Main Army in Sept. 1778[undecipherable] the States of Massachusetts with a [undecipherable] Debt from that State. In the settlement of [undecipherable] of the pay of the Line from the State of Massachusetts I took up the account only from January 1781 only, and considered that as the state had undertaken it, that the whole wages for the year 1780. wanting what was paid by the State and to [undecipherable] the [undecipherable - complete line blacked out] accounts of the Officers fpr the [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] without a recurrance to this Muster, and as settlement an now arrangement of the accounts from the first principles [undecipherable] for you the ballance whicj zje State was authorized to pay, on their answer as well as how any of the State Commissioners can determine the proüriety of the payments without the Ministers or an [undecipherable] from them.

Royal Flint Esquire