[111] Office of Army Accounts New York, April 24^th 1787 Sir, Your favor of the 9^th Instant is duly received and in answer to your request I have fully examined the Claim of the late Captain John [undecipherable] and feel myself unhappy that it is not in my power to relieve the [undecipherable] as I find the pay which Captain [undecipherable] claimed has been already drawn from the United States. It appears by the accounts of the Paymaster General of the Northern Army that Colonel Joseph Wood received on the 10^th of November 1776 the pay of the Regiment for the Months of August, Sept & October and that on the 16^th of January 1777 the [undecipherable] Paymaster received of the said Paymaster General the pay of the Regiment for the Months of November & Dec^r 1776 in which payments are included the pay of Cap^t Russ amounting to £350 York Currency. It further appears by the indorsed copies of orders in favor of Colonel Wood that receipts that he has received a large sum of money for the pay and arrears of pay of his regiment this money I presume was drawn for the pay of the Officers and