New York October 17^th 1787 Dear Sir I send you will Receive three Certificates N° 94326 for one hundred dollars 9487 for one hundred dollars and N° 94328 for one hundred and thirty four 12/100 dollars which you will please deliver to M^r. Dunscomb and take his Receipt Yours &^c Jn^o. Pirie Esq^r. J. Howell P. Office of Army Accounts New York Oct. 18^th 1787 Sir In compliance with your request relative to the Claims for Pay of Captain James Davis Ensign John Turrill Thomas Turrill and John Farrell I beg leave to inform you that the act of Congress of November 3^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 at this [undecipherable]