Mistake has hapned which I ought to Testify am willing it should be done but with a Speady Close of the matter — Yours &c Martha Durkee John Pierce Esq^r Dunbarton 30^th of May 1787 Sir, By your favour of the 15 Ins^t I understand that there is a presumed mistake in the final adjustment of my of my Fathers Accounts the Copies being absent I am not personally Recollect what sums ware debited: but the sum that you allude to, I am not sure (my Father) was Charged to M^r Parkinson and Receipted for by him, and I suppose he is Ready to settle his accounts when legally Called upon. however If there is an evident mistake, I wish it might be Rectified, but do not like the Voyage to New York If it can be avoided. I would therefore Propose for you to return the Copies that I sent forward last Summer by the Post as they are; and if upon examination I find the fact to bear as Represented, some method must be Suggested to Tender Justice to the United States, Perhaps without going to New York, as the whole sum in Controversy is scarce Sufficient to defray the expenses that must arise to me, If I should be obliged to return again upon the Buisness. I beg Sir that you would Inclose the Copies and forward them by the first Post, and as the Buisness is of a Publick Nature I shall thank you to Frank the Letter Direct to me at Haverhill in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts — Yours &c Cha Stark John Pierce Esq^r Deerfield 8^th May 1787 Sir Meeting with an opportunity by Cap^t Norris, I take the Liberty again to Solicit the Copies of my Fathers Accounts that I wrote to you for last Summer and again in February last but have not Received any answer. M^r Livermore told me that you did not fully understand my meaning — the Certificate that I want of you is that the Accounts of N^o 1. 2. 3 & 4 Contains a full Statement of all General Starks Military Accounts, and that he has legally Accounted for all the Moneys that he Received from the Publick while an Officer in the American Army — this Certificate I wish you to sign Officially and transmit me by the Return of Cap^t Norris who will have the Honour of delivering this. This Gentleman is the Father of one Eliphalet Norris who was taken up some time since for Passing Counterfeit Publick Securities. his Buisness is to See what is become of his Son, altho the Son may have been Guilty of faults, yet