New York July 12^th 1787 Dear Sir Inclosed you will receive a pfificate A^o 4419 in One hundred & twenty five dollars being General Mecklenburgs order in form of the Society of Cincinatti of your State also a return of their Officers from whom one Months pay of their several grades has been retained on the 4th of their accounts and Exhibit also filed by M^r Pierce to the Treasurer of your society which you will please to deliver to Major Moore and inform him that I will forward as soon as possible the Return of the names of those who have not given orders but whose Pay is retained — Cap^t M^cConnell I am D^r J Howell --- New York July 15^th 1787 Sir Inclosed you will receive copies of the accounts of Cap^t Examiner Gills by which you will find that he has received a pfificate from the Register for his pay & Rations from the date of Commission to the 1^st of January 1782 his depreciation you inform me has been settled by the State of Virginia so that he has had two settlements [text continues below image boundary]