[20] and agreeably to your request has enclosed a Statement of the accounts of the late colonel [undecipherable] by which you will find that a large balance apparently is due the United States On the 14^th of May 1787 I wrote to M^r [undecipherable] on the subject of those accounts & informed him the reason which induced M^r Pierce to request M^r Welch to retain the half pay from him — If the heirs will discharge the balance that appears due the United States I shall be happy in complying with the wishes of M^r Welch and will transmit him the necessary Certificate to enable him to close the account with the United States I have the honor to be &c Yours Joseph Howell Jun^r Benjamin Huntington Esquire Richmond April 11^th 1788 Dear Howell, By desire of friends I enclose you two claims which you will be pleased to present to M^r Burrell for settlement & return me the Certificates that may [be] due — Do you intend writing me? — Pray let me hear from you and say whether any States have their accounts in this your office — how they Stand &c &c. I am pretty sure you could find time & matter to convey what would give me pleasure — do try — [undecipherable] take of your neglect with me for — I have a room full to attend to, and yet I fear I hate not & favored enough — we work almost double time — In hast your friend indeed — [Joseph Howell Jun^r Esquire] [undecipherable]