the Packet you will have time sufficient, as she will not sail untill the first week in Decem^r — The accounts of your State I presume will soon come on, I will particularly thank you for the scale adapted by you for reducing the nominal pay on settlement of the depreciation accounts as also for such information of the nature of the accounts that may come before me, as may be in your power I am now examining the accounts of the State of Connecticut and flatter myself in having them already by new years days; if [White] is with you please to present my compliments to him be — J Howell J^r C. Richmond Copy of the certificate alluded to in the foregoing letter Paid Captain Cornelius Jansen two hundred and twenty four dollars & ²/₉₀ in full for William Codi's order on me for his pay, gratuity & clothing. dated 8 June 1784 Jer. V Renspelear 1 Oct^o. 1788 —— Canterbury, Oct^o. 31. 1788 Sir, Prince Negroe enlisted into the Continental Service in the year 1777. during the War and belonged to the Second Connecticut Regiment and served faithfully untill by sickness lost one eye and