[332] Joseph Howell Esq^r Board of Treasury Jan^t 25^th 1788 Sir I am directed by this Board to transmit to you a Memorial of P. P. De Haas son of the late General De Haas, and to request the favour of you to report on the circumstances stated therein, and particularly on the nature and extent of the Accounts referred to in the memorial. I am with Esteem Your Ob^t Humble Serv^t Will Duer Sec^y Col Stephen Bayard Office of Army Accounts New York Jan^t 2^d 1788 Sir Your letter of the 18^th Inst reached me too late on friday last to be answered by that days post. The only account of yours among the papers of Col Wood now with me is a pay roll of your Company from the dates of their Enlistments to the first of November 1776.