[352] Office of Army Account New York April 16^th 1784 Sir As we have no agent to Colonel Baldwin's late regiment of officers, he has directed Timothy Coleman, so that part of the regiment belonging to Massachusetts to Col. Thomas Fallon of Boston: I have desired that you will receive of said Fallon the certificates he may get from you on hand and forward to this office a duplicate acknowledgement of his having received his accounts to all his funds charged with as p the enclosed list, that I may, on settlement with M^r King, take the same to his credit in this office — I am Sir Yours &c Pierce John Henry Esq^r New York April 28. 1785 Sir Finding that M. Noone by lodging his claim in this office prior to August 1784 was not [undecipherable] from his demands by the act foreclosing such claims, and 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 paymasters 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 — who now charges his own pay again for the same time he is not only foreclosed 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 insinuates, refused an allowance &c., whereas it appears by the account paid by Dallam, that he had it on Gen^l Gates' warrant, and the last incircumstance appears very material