hart 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 charg'd 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 J^no White Esq^r New York Feb^y 27^th 179_ Dear Sir In answer to your question whither after the time for exhibiting the accounts is expired, any further evidence or information can be received by the State to support her account I must inform you that I find the construction given to the act of Congress by their officers here to be that the States must produce all their proofs at the time of lodging their Vouchers & that they are precluded from exhibiting any further documents afterwards. The answer to your other question the Board of Treasury I presume has furnished M^r Winder — I am &c Pierce To Andrew Dunscomb Esq^r New York March 6^th 179_ Sir In consequence of the inclosed act of Congress N^o 1, I do myself the honor to inform your excellency that Gen Putnam, who commanded a division of the Army at Peekskill, in the year 1777, borrowed from the military chest on the 9^th of September in that year