Comptroller Generals Office May 31^st 17— Dear Sir Please inform me — Captain Isaac Sweeny of 11^th Regiment Pennsylvania left the service fall 1780 Cause him by death or resignation? Where shall Fees direct for M^r Pierce I am Dear Sir Yours sincerely J. Nicholson Joseph Howell Esq^r Acct Comptroller Generals Office Philadelphia May 28^th 1787 Dear Sir M^r Pierce wished to know whether the depreciation of the pay of Erasmus Gill hath been settled by the State of Pennsylvania — you may inform him I was not — I do not find that any Charges appear for advances to recruiting Officers in 1776 & 1777 but what you have already had I am Dear Sir Yours sincerely J. Nicholson Joseph Howell Esq Ass^t Commissr Accts [undecipherable]