[to Andrew Dunscomb March 19^th 1787 [undecipherable: signature/paraph] [undecipherable]] New York, 19 March 1787 Your letters of the 5 Instant are received — Have to inform you that Lieutenant Benjamin Morely of Artillery is not mentioned in the returns of prisoners within this or the war office, for which reason he has been omitted in the [undecipherable] pay [undecipherable] 1783 — I have attended to Captain [undecipherable: Fitzgeralds?] account — the balance against him of [undecipherable] fifty one [undecipherable] dollars with Interest on the [undecipherable] from the 1 [undecipherable] 1778 to 1 may 1783 must be refunded to the Loan Office of Virginia — after which he will be entitled to his [undecipherable] in his hands — you have [undecipherable] Col [undecipherable] the 500 dollars in [undecipherable] account — [undecipherable] letter on the subject you say he [undecipherable] it of Col Ball — [undecipherable] of the two do you mean [undecipherable] have been in the Public Books? I am answered D^r Middletons Letter — his [undecipherable] in this office, No voucher whatever of his being in service after the 31 Dec^r 1782 is the reason he has not been made up for [undecipherable] after that period — I am &c [undecipherable: signature] [J W Dunscomb]