Office of Army Accounts New York March 17^th 1788 Sir Your Letter of the 14^th instant is received I wrote you on the 11^th of February last that your Petition had been referred to the Board of Treasury and that they had reported to Congress that your Fathers Accounts could not be closed in their present Situation — what Congress have done in consequence of this Report I am a Stranger to — I am of opinion that it would be unnecessary for you to come on without first knowing the Sentiments of Gen^l [undecipherable] to whom I find you have written — In your Letter of the 20^th of February last you mentioned that Col. Millet acknowledges the charges exhibited against him by your Father to be Just— I would suggest to you the [strikethrough: propriety of] propriety of procuring this acknowledgment from under his hand M^r Pierce is now present you will please to address him if you thinks it necessary hereafter to write on this Subject I am Sir Yours &c. (Signed) Joseph Howell Jun^r Jn. P. De Haas