the Pocket 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 ready by new years days if [undecipherable] with [undecipherable] please to present my compliments to him be— J Howell Jr C Richmond Copy of the certificate alluded to in the foregoing letter Paid Captain Cornelius Janssen two hundred and twenty four dollars & 7/90 in full for William Co[undecipherable: Codec] on me for his pay gratuity & clothing, dated 8 Jan^y Levi V [undecipherable: Knicplean] 10 Oct^r 1788 — Canterbury Oct 31 1788 Sir Prince Negroe inlisted into the Continental Service in the year 1777 during the War and belonged to the [underline: Second] Connecticut Regiment and served faithfully untill by sickness lost one eye and