New York February 5^th 1787 Sir I am to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 23^d instant. I cannot find that any deductions have been made on the regimental abstracts of 1776 from the pay of the Soldiers for cloathing received, in conformity to the Resolve of November 1775 General Mifflin delivered the [undecipherable: mentioned] cloathing to the Officers and was 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 Watertown to the amount of £6993. 12. 3 and he charges this Committee with cloathing to the amount of £261. 6. 2 leaving a balance of £6732. 5. 9 Lawful 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 consisted principally in Shirts Shoes & Hose — and that General Mifflin 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 Service if this Committee acted for the State — Colonel [strikethrough: Frances Burnet in an account settled by him with the Masters] of the Main Army in September 1778 credited the State of Massachusetts with a thousand Dollars received from that State — In the settlement of the pay of the Line from the State of Massachusetts, I took up the accounts from January 1^st 1781 only and considered that as the State had undertaken it that the whole wages for the year 1780 excepting what had been received on account from the continent, was paid by the State and to come into the general settlement. I therefore did not carry on the accounts of the Officers for this period and cannot without a recurrence to the Musters, and an arrangement of the accounts from the first principles determine for you the balance which the State was authorised to pay, on this occasion as well as in in the case of the depreciation, I do not well know how any of the States Commissioners can determine the propriety of the payments without the Musters or an Abstract from them — I am &c [signature] Royal Flint Esq^r.