Pittsburg July 15^th 1787 — Dear Sir I wrote you in May, but have not been favoured with an Answer, Mr. McKay son to the old Colonel, who died at Trenton the beginning of the war, and my Brother in Law is the bearer of this, as he is a Stranger in New York any services you may render him while there, will be gratefully acknowledged and lay me under particular obligations — Your own enquiries together with such information the Gentleman I wrote to has given will I hope enable you easily and fully to have my Public account settled — If so, you will have no objections in helping me to my Certificates which should now be funded — in that case Mr. McKay will receive and give you a receipt for them or any part thereof, which I hereby impower him to do, and at the same time acknowledge to be as good in Law as my own receipt so given, — I shall be happy in having a line from you on his return and in the mean time remain with every sentiment of Esteem, &c S. Bayard Cap. Jos. Howell