Wm. Imlay Esq.
March 8 1787
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New York March 8. 1787
Sir
You will oblige me and the public, by forwarding your deposition, in which you shall state every circumstance relating to the certificate of four hundred & eighty Doll which was presented at your office for the [undecipherable] in which I wish you to insert the time when it was presented - the name of the person who presented it, the place where belonged and a particular description of the person.
I am Sir
Your Obed Servt
Wm Inlay Esquire
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New York 19th April 1796
Sir
Your claim for stoppages made out of the pay of the non Commissioned Officers and Privates of your Company has been considered — I have no desire to refuse the allowance of any demands made by a Gentleman of honor, but I must prefer the admission of this for the following reasons —
That the Account having arisen so long back as 1776 is attended with all the disadvantages arising from so long a period — and therefore impossible to have such lights thrown on it, as might have been the case, had it been presented and stated earlier, and at this time it is unknown how many demands of this is admitted may be produced of the same nature, nor what circumstances they may be attended with indeed when this account shall be examined it appears to me that it will be necessary for you to show if possible by certificate the amount of cloathing and other [undecipherable] which ought to be [undecipherable] the same, and the accounts and acknowledgments from the [undecipherable] of the monies you have paid to them on account, or orders for the respective ballances which may be yet due from you wish to receive them.
Your papers and accounts are lodged in my Office and therefore you will not be frustrated by waiting for a further opportunity.
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[Colo Caleb North]
New York, April 19, 1796
Sir
I have examined your accounts, and paid every attention to your claim that your situation as a foreigner and an Officer who has left his all in the service of this country, requires — I have paid you your pay — your demand for transportation of your company and your charges for mounting it in 1777. The sum of 14796 livres yet stands charged against you — opposed to which you have presented the Account of your Company in 1776 raised in Canada, certified by General Hazen and attested to by yourself — This account Gen'l Hazen informs me was settled between him and you in August 1776 and that you then gave him your receipt for this sum being the supposed amount of your advances. But the present account now presented by you of advances made to [undecipherable]
