me by obtaining a certificate from M^r Pierce (or I Suppose you would answer) of my Selling it with you he would refuse it which certificate, my dear Sir, I wish you'd forward direct to me at the Connestogas waggons Manifest that by the first opportunity I have wrote M^r Pierce on the same subject which might suffice but for fear of his being out of the city or its not coming to hand immediately is the reason of my troubling you with it as I wait here for no other purpose I was in hopes of seeing you in Philadelphia I would have gone to Hartford but am very unwell I am Dear Sir Yours sincerely Jno Grant late Capt 8^th Reg^t 3 Dragns Joseph Howell Esq^r New York July 21^st 1788 Dear Sir Your letters of the 30^th of June & 17^th instant were duly received — I could not have troubled you to have wrote a friend letter on the same subject of the vouchers for General Smallwoods pay, as this article had been founded on my first application, to some accident or other it was on its lag — I now inclose you a copy of it by which you will be informed that the sum of 1023 33/100 dollars the charge transmitted you from this office was received for subsistance for 1782 app^r. — M^r O'Harra has taken [strikethrough: the] note of it I will close the Generals account in the books of the office M^r Pierce still continues very low & weak — I think he cannot possibly survive many weeks — I am Yours John White Esq^r J Howell Jun^r