[1693] nor is the abstract added upon signed by you which leaves me at a loss and prevents me from [undecipherable] or proving it by the entries in your account therewith — I suppose there is a considerable Balance on the whole due to the [undecipherable] in specie, and that you have in your settlement with the United States treated for it as the actually paid — If this is the case I wish to be informed, and whether this abstract is to be any note signed by which I am to distinguish the sums deducted from the [undecipherable] on settlement the amount r[ec'd] by him — and the balance [I] still owe to him — Mr. Pierce is in Virginia and Capt. Hamilton on a visit to Mrs. Hewit who is sister [undecipherable] to him, which is the reason I have taken the liberty of writing to you. I wait your answer and am &c C. Swan — in Capt [signature] [Jno. White Esq.] New York Monday, June [undecipherable] 1787 Dear Sir, I received your letter of the 11^th Inst by Major N. [undecipherable] on Saturday evening, and the enclosed one for M^r [undecipherable] I delivered this morning agreeable to your request, which he laid before the Board they have desired me to write — [170.] and inform you that you might be absent until after the [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] person now depending, which they [undecipherable] will be about twelve days — Doctor Bronson is in town, and you can ask him what will be necessary for him to do as an evidence in this case previous to the trial — There seems to be no immediate necessity for your attendance here, except that of my joining Mr. Pierce in Virginia, of which you are the sole and [undecipherable] judge; indeed there are some [undecipherable] that I cannot act upon, they being too much misfortune for me as a necessary agent — there I must defer until you return — I have this day suspended that of the attorney of Lieut. [undecipherable] [undecipherable] late of Armstrong[undecipherable] whose case I thought of too Complex a nature for me to decide on — Mr. Pierce seems anxious that I should go on to Virginia, of which Mr. Penn has written to him [undecipherable] speak strikingly of your Education & Embarrassments — But as this intelligence will perhaps only add to those yet already too great I shall say no more than that you may depend on my attention to the business of the office I myself only endeavour to render you whatever little service is in my power — I shall communicate the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable]