New York May 7. 1788 Madam In answer to your letter of the 10^th of March last received 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 then 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 [undecipherable] Lodge who paid us 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 obed^t Ser^t J Howell Jun^r M^rs Eleanor Heally Philadelphia April 11^th 1788 Dear Sir You have the accounts certified that all the charges are due & just (hope the Gentlemen do not object to it) by Col Harmon Capt Davies & Willet Williams attending this before you. Gen^l Irvine informs me that the Board of Treasury have reported that the accounts ought not to be closed till the officers who he advanced money to settle their accounts; but few of them yet living; his opinion is that the Certificates from the officers will throw new light on the subject. He desired me that this may