[220] you must be here — we have this day been requested again by General Knox to furnish a roll of the N^o Carolina Muster Rolls and I suppose we shall soon begin to [undecipherable] them — Their is no further accounts of the proceeding of the Committee of Economy, nor am I learn that any alteration or New Arrangements in the Civil department is immediately [undecipherable] take place — I inclose you a letter which arrived [undecipherable] since I came to town — I have taken the [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] for Willette Regiment and [undecipherable] several of them — Your friends in the City are all well — Jos. Howell Esq^r [signed] C. W[undecipherable] New York September 3. 1787 My Dear Sir I acknowledge the Receipt of your letter of the 23 August which came to me this morning and will attend to the enclosures — we are [undecipherable] dull business — The N^o Carolina Muster Roll business will be a tedious Job and of course falls to the lot