nor is the abstract adduced upon signed by you which leaves me at a loss and prevents me from the [undecipherable] or proving it by the entries in your accounts therein — I suppose there is a considerable balance in the whole due to the fore in [undecipherable] and that you have in your settlement with the United States [undecipherable] for it as the actuality paid — If this is the case I wish to be informed, and whether the abstract is to be any note [undecipherable] by which I am to distinguish the sums deducted from the fore in my settlement the amount rec^d. by him — and the balance I still owe to him M. Pierce is in Virginia and Capt. [undecipherable] on a visit to M^rs. [undecipherable] who is either [undecipherable] which is the reason I have taken the liberty of writing to you awaiting your answer and am &^c C. [undecipherable: probable reading "Lewis"] in Capt [undecipherable: signature] [Jno. White Esq^r] --- Dear Sir, New York Monday June [undecipherable]^th [undecipherable] I received your letter of the [undecipherable]^th Inst: by M^r [undecipherable] N. [undecipherable] on [undecipherable] evening and the enclosed one for M^r [undecipherable] I delivered this morning agreeably to your request which he lays before the Board they have desired me to write