to the Board that such a sum of Money was due him more especially as I read above a Charge is still existing against him — the Sheet of Papers were received this day, which you will please to inform M^r. [undecipherable] if many of them were wet but not materially damaged I am Sir y^r Andrew Dunscomb Esq^r Joseph Howell Office of Army Accounts New York Aug 26 1788 Sir, I wrote you on the 31 July & 11 Inst relative to the claim of Eleanor Montgomery for half pay. I will particularly thank you for a speedy answer to my enquiry, particularly as the poor Woman appears in distress and her moral Situation & Relations as appears as yet taken place in the department held by our late friend M^r. Price. I am Sir y^r John Nicholson Esq^r Joseph Howell Gentlemen New York Aug 29^th 1788 Congress having been pleased to honor me with the Commission of Army Accounts I take the liberty to request your Hon^ble Board will be pleased to grant me an order on the Treasurer for one quire of Blank final Settlement Certificates, several Gentlemen who have balances due them are now waiting and having no Certificates but which are signed by the late Commissioners is the reason of this request. I have the Honor to be The Hon^ble Commissioners of the Treasury Gentlemen y^r Joseph Howell