New York March 6 1787 Doctor Your request respecting Dent Van Everson, has been attended to, in directing the usage of the [undecipherable] of paid that he was taken prisoner on the 1^st of June 1781, and exchanged on the 28^th of Nov. 1782. After which I cannot find him on any of the Returns of the Office been detained. I have repeatedly applied to Col. Carmington for information, of the manner of his leaving the service, who answered without effect. The claim is thereby delayed, he then must be some reason for its being omitted on the different war returns. Your Books of Accounts are also upon letter of the 4^th of July and assured. I have not had them to [undecipherable] yet, but your receipt shall be ready to be obtained in your order, [undecipherable: applying] a disclosure, a question many useful, but at present the Comptroller refuses to grant any, you will however be aware of your liability to establish a precedent with them, when you draw your own account as Commissioner, which will then be a sufficient authority in other cases. I must that the transfer Rolls and Auditors papers, which agen you and the State Auditors desire to your possession ought be forwarded as early as possible, they are [undecipherable] wanted for the public service, [undecipherable: if good that] the changes be different and [undecipherable], as helped by just the recovery by these. I am an [undecipherable]. I have to know to what officer these amounts were rendered, to what [undecipherable] involved in support of them. If this [undecipherable]