New York October 17^th 1787 Dear Sir I send you will Receive three Certificates N^o 94326 for one hundred dollars 9487 for one hundred dollars and N^o 94328 for one hundred and thirty four 12/90 dollars which you will please deliver to M^r Dunscomb and take his Reciept Yours &c J^no: Pirie Esq^r — J Howell p --- Office of Army Accounts Sir New York Oct. 18^th 1787 In compliance with your request relative to the Claims for Pay of Captain James Davis Ensign John Sorrell Thomas Sorrell and John Farrell I beg leave to inform you that the act of Congress of November 2^d 1785 sanctions these Claims — If Captain Davis has presented his Claim in reason I should have rejected it in its present form The Pay Rolls of the Virginia Line being at Richmond puts it out of my power to ascertain whether this Officer was included in them as a Supernumerary Officer of Col^o [undecipherable] Regiment which might have been the case and the money still be in the hands of the Paymaster of the Regiment. It is therefore necessary that Cap^t Davis should qualify to his not Receiving the Pay, or Receive a Certificate from the Pay Master that it has not been drawn from the United States — Sorrell's claim is proper, no other objection more than the act of Congress to a settlement with him — The pay of those Soldiers who died or were killed was always included in the Pay Rolls to the day of their death. I therefore presume the United States is discharged from the claim of Thomas Sorrell — M^r Buckner has left me in the dark as to the time of Service of Ensign Sowell altho he died after the war, he does not say he continued to the end of it — and as M^r Dunscomb has not returned him any of his Returns to this Office I suppose he must have resigned or have been supernumerary. I would Recommend M^r Sowell to apply to the State for if his Son was [continues]