Comptrollers Office Hartford October 6^th 1788 Sir — In answer to the questions proposed in your letter of the 9^th instant, you will please to observe, that the Depreciation Accounts of the Connecticut Line for their services before the 1^st of January 1780 were settled by Committees of the State and Army, particularly chosen for that purpose, who met and agreed upon the principles of the settlement before the Act of Congress of the 16^th of April 1780, was passed. — Any information which I therefore undertake to give, you will please to consider [undecipherable] being less authentic, than what may be derived from the gentlemen who effected the settlement of those Accounts These principles were settled by the Committees of State & Army or by Acts of Assembly, That no person who had left the service otherwise than by death before the 1^st of January 1780, should be entitled to a settlement. — That all the advances made by the State to the troops should be charged in the settlement except —