New York febru^ary 3 1787 Sir I am to Acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 23^d instant. I am told that Certain deductions have been made on the regimental Abstracts of 1776 from the pay of the Soldiers for Cloathing received, in Conformity to the Return of November 1775 from at Buffalo Island, the amount being to the officers and non com paid for the same by them, and I find that he has given Credit in his accounts for Cloathing for the 1775, for a quantity received by him from the Committee of Yorktown to the amount of £0093 D.3 and he Charges this Committee with returning to the amount of £201 D.2 leaving a Variance of £0732.3.0 Last the money received from this Committee who I suppose acted for the State, but it appears improbable that this Cloathing is the same with that you mention, because that it was delivered in 1775, that it consists principally in Shirts Shoes & Hose— and that General Mitlan has produced the Officers receipts for his deliveries which he could not do if they were lodged with the State — This information may however be of Som—