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Office of Army Accounts

New York October 8th 1787

Sir

Inclosed you will receive a certificate A 94,814 for 908 (unecipherable) Dollars being for an extension of your pay from the 1st of Janaury to the 1 of November 1784 at which period I considered your department to lease, it appearing by the accounts settled by Colonel Walker that on that day Mr Williams was paid in full -

The whole amount of the 10 (undecipherable) pay at 92 Dolls

(undecipherable) month is _____________________________________________920

from which I have deducted to the sum of (undecipherable) dollars passed to your credit on the Settlet made the 4th May last as received by Mr Lamb but which sum I have since found to have been credited you by Colonel Walker _________________________11.2 leaves the amount of certificate Dolls 908.69

I am yr J Howell Jr

Doct Thomas Bond

I certify that I see Mr Joseph Howell Jr inclose the above deducted certificates in a letter of which this is a copy and also that he sealed the same in my presense

Caleb Swan