The Rev. M^r Plumb Middleton Connecticut Office of Army Accounts New York Dec^m 11. 1800 Sir Your letter of the 24 October last directed to Mr. Pierce was handed to me yesterday — I have examined the Books of this Office and find that the sum of twenty five dollars was retained from you in the Settlement of an account for pay in the year 1777, being the amount of your Order in favor of the Treasurer of the Society of Cincinata for the State of Connecticut. — Your order being on file with the accounts I do not conceive myself authorised to give the certificate only to the Treasurer of the State on whom it is drawn, or to his Order. you conceive that the certificate should bear interest from the year 1777 — because it was retained from the pay of that year — in this I differ from you for were it