[352] Office of Army Account New York April 16^th 1784 Sir As we [undecipherable] being agent to Colonel Baldwins late regiment of officers, he has directed me to [undecipherable] certificates, so that part of the regiment belonging to Massachusetts, to Colⁿ Thomas Tilton of Boston: I have [undecipherable] that you will receive of Col. Tilton the certificates he may get from you on hand and forward to this office a duplicate [undecipherable] of his having [undecipherable] for his accounts, for all the funds charged with as [per?] the [undecipherable] list, that I may on settlement with M. King [at?] the same to his credit in this office — I am Sir Yours & Burr John Henry Esq^r New York April 28. 1785 Sir Finding that M. Nooms by lodging his claim in this office prior to August 1718 was not [undecipherable] from his demands by the act [foreclosing?] such claims, as I at first supposed, I have therefore inquired into the merits of his claims against the Union and find that on the 21^st January 1779 he drew from Richard Dallam a continental pay master his own pay and that of nine more who were detained in Philadelphia from Jan^y 1^st. 1777 to the 21^st of January following on an order from Gen^l Gates. He now charges his own pay again for the same time, he is not only [undecipherable] by his former payment from the sum he demands on his own account, but it also leaves a disagreeable impression in respect to his other demands for his men — Another circumstance deserves consideration, which is, that in his letter to you, he says that he applied to Gen^l Gates for his pay who he [undecipherable], refused an allowance [undecipherable]; whereas it appears by the account paid by Dallam, that he laid it on Gen^l Gates [undecipherable] warrant, and the last [undecipherable] circumstance [undecipherable] appears material