[22] to any other of his commanding officers. Upon which your Commissioner begs leave to observe that the Certificates of Col. Elbert & Lieut Cowan contradict the evidence they obtaind when the return was made & subscribed by them on the 25.^th March 1785 & that the evidence of Lieut Thomas Glascock is not of any effect he having been transfered from the Georgia to the Virginia Line in Sept.^r 1780. & appear to have been a Prisoner during a great part of the time that Lieut Col. Pannell claims pay Your Commissioner begs leave further to observe that the certificate of other officers only carries with it a belief that Lieut Col. Pannell did not resign his Commission And further it appears improper that the certificates of inferior officers should invalidate those of their Superiors Whereupon your Commissioner in consideration of this contradictory evidence is opinion, that the claim of the Petitioner is not yet sufficiently supported to authorise a Settlement J. Howell Jun.^r [Report on Lieut Col. Joseph Pannell's Claims] Office of Army Accounts New York June 6.^th 1788. Sir The Heirs of the late Major Ichabod Burnet Aid to Major Gen. Green have applied for a settlement of his accoun- This Gentleman, at the time of his entering the Service, being [23] a citizen of the state of New Jersey induces me to request a Certificate from you what monies &c (if any) have been advanced him, as also to be informed whether he or any person for him has rec.^d depreciation on his pay from the state of New Jersey. M.^r Pierce is still absent from the office which prevents me from obtaining a frank- you will please to direct under cover to him In complying with this request by the return of the Post you will particularly oblige Sir your obedient Servant Jo: Howell Jun.^r James Mott Esq. Burlington March 5 1788. At the request of my sister, widow of the late Capt Gibs Jones I am induced to trouble you with a few lines to request that you will be so good as to take the trouble to look over the papers & accounts that she will send to you by this conveyance & to have them adjusted for her in your office - the account sent to you is as accurate as it would be drawn out from the papers that she has in her possession - Capt Jones having lost all his inlistments & others papers with his Baggage at the Battle of Brandywine & the Musters Rolls & other papers being left with the company when he resigned, but you having all his Muster Rolls in yours office can easily ascertain the numbers of men he inlisted as all the men in his Company must have been inlisted by him as he had no officers recruiting for his company but Capt Lieut B[undecipherable] who never joinid he being to the northward & any men Capt B[undecipherable] might have inlisted must have joind the company that he did to the northward - Lieut Kemper rec.^d 100 Dollars of Capt Jones for recruiting but I can find no paper that gives any account of any men inlisted by Lieut Kemper, but should he have inlisted any,