[13] New York May 7^th 1798 Madam In answer to your letter of the 10^th of March last reciev'd this day, I am to inform you that the Paymaster of the regiment to which Hugh Bradley belong'd has not closed his accounts, which forbids my transmitting you a certificate for what was retained from Bradley on a supposition of his receiving the Money from the United States by the hands of Lieu^t Denny Lodge who drew as for the first Pennsylvania Regiment. He is somewhere in Pennsylvania, but what part I am a stranger to, and therefore cannot call on him for a settlement. I am Your obt Serv^t J Howell Jun^r M^rs Eleanor Feally