Office of Army Accounts New York April 5^th 1787 Dear Sir, Your favor of the 22^d Ult^o. with the inclosures were duly received. the stoppage made from you was not in consequence of the money charged you by Cap^t. Montgomery but arose from the probability of your receiving monies from Colonel Grier for the raising of your company & as the Colonel has not settled his accounts there was no other method that could be adopted for the benefit of the United States than by making partial Stoppages from the Officers – you may recollect in a conversation with you at Philadelphia that I mentioned those circumstances and that as you had not settled any account for recruiting it was necessary either to procure a certificate from Col. Grier that you had settled with him on an account of monies received for that service that I might be enabled to close them, the objection still prevails & untill a settlement of your recruiting account takes place or a certificate obtained from Col. Grier as above expressed a certificate for stoppages made from you cannot be granted— Your Letters for the future you will please to direct to John Pierce Esq. Paymaster General as I shall leave this Office in a few days. the Receipts transmitted by you for the payment of your Company I have lodged in this Office I am &c Cap. Alex. Parker J. Howell Jr. late 7 Pen. Reg^t