New York Feby 27^th 1788 Dear Sir I have just received your Letter of the 17^th in which you inform me that you have had the misfortune of loosing a part of your family, I sincerely commiserate you on this occasion altho I am altogether ignorant of the extent of your Misfortune. I cannot find that the Governor of Maryland is charged in this Office with a sum answering your description, I wish you therefore to give me more explicit information of this Money that I may know what Receipt is wanted by him. Pierce [To Jn^o White Esq^r]