New York August 2^d 1787 Sir I have this day received a letter from M^r Siron wherein he says "Doctor Bond has requested my attention to a claim of Doctor David Gould. I find Gould is charged with £ 2500 received by him from the State as Paymaster to the 2^d Virginia State Regt in March 1775 and the same is deducted from his acct — the balance I have remitted to Doctor Bond in bills of exchange on Philadelphia if he is not there will you inform M^r Williams &c." — This information is sent for your Government By D. G. M^r Edw^d Williams [signature] Dear Sir New York August 2^d 1787 Your letter of the 28^th Ulto came to hand this day, a few days since I also received your Packet containing a number of letters to & from you which shall be disposed of agreeably to your request. you will now receive an account Current of Cap^t James Deards as I taken from the Books of the Office, as also the charges which appear against him and by David Gould which are still unaccounted for — Doctor Bond is at present in Boston a few days since I had seen him and as he requested to be informed of your having completed his business in Virginia, I can now write you him the required information. I make no doubt the Doctor will call here on his way to Philadelphia and make a demand for an extension of his pay of which I have informed you — Shall I grant him a furlough for the pay? I shall write M^r Williams by this post and inform him of the Bills of Exchange being sent on to the Doctor — You will please to inform M^r Dunscomb that his letter of the 10^th of June only came to hand the 27^th Ulto that I cannot possibly attend to his request until the accounts now before me are settled. you will also oblige me by informing Colonel [undecipherable] that I have made inquiry relative to the lands granted by Congress to their Officers with him and am informed they are unsaleable — in all probability the lands will be worth receiving in a future as Congress have within a few days past [undecipherable] sell at large tracts of [undecipherable] to the Massachussetts Comp^y (Part of which I am informed is allotted for the army)