[187.] New York, August 2^d 1787 Sir I have this day received a letter from M^r. [undecipherable] wherein he says "Doctor Bond has requested my attention to a claim of Doctor David Gould. I find Gould is charged with £ 250 received by him from the State as Paymaster to the 2^d Virginia [State] Regt in March 1778 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 of it." This information is sent for your Government by D. G[undecipherable] M^r Edw^d Williams [signature: J. Howell?]