to the late 1^st Jersey, y^ou am not indebted to the United States you will lay me under further and greater Obligations — if a failure to enclose is on a little bill read the Henry Harris — of any Officers that are pensioners are indebted to the publics, and Congress had transmitted the accounts to the several states they belong to them to be repaid from them, it would have saved me from troubling you which I am very Sor — The United States are Indebted to me near $2,000 and I am suffering for the want of it. I am y^r Sincere Joseph Henry Joseph Howell Esq^r: Philadelphia D^r Sr You may recollect a dispute which took place in the year 1793 between John Nicholson the Comptroller General and myself, respecting my accounts as an Officer of the name — that same affair will shortly come before a Jury, which I have long wished for — and I want to be prepared with proof, that Officers have been promoted while they were in Captivity, and have drawn pay accordingly, and also that Officers who were exchanged while in Captivity had drawn a years pay allowed by Congress at [undecipherable]