John Nicholson Esq^r. Office of Army Accounts New York Feb^y 27^th 1788 D^r Sir Your letter of the 20. Ins^t was this day received; I now enclose you a Certificate for Colonel Bayard N^o [undecipherable] for two hundred dollars on interest from the [undecipherable]^th November 1783. M^r Pierce informed me that Col. Bayard mentioned a much larger sum than this was retained from him, you will please to inform him that the sum now sent is the whole which he will find by the following Statement his Commutation - - - - - - - - - is - - 3600 his order favor of the Society of Cincinati 60 Sundries rec^d of M^r Hodgdon - - - - 14 Certificates issued to the agent - - - - 3326 Stoppages for Rec^t unsettled - - - - 200 3600 I am with great Esteem Y^r Ob^t Serv^t Joseph Howell