liberty to issue the notes due Cap^t Taliaferro — if you have any monies in your hands belonging to the following Gentlemen I have to request they may be retained untill they account for the sums as opposed to their names which are apart received by Cap^t Taliaferro & supposed to have been paid them respectively. — Viz. Gustavus B.Wallace. L^t Col^o . . . . . £40.000 William Lewis Major — — . — "40.000 Rich^d C Waters Cap^t of artillery — — — 16.000 Morkes Vandewall — — — — 16.000 Jn^o White L^t Ass^t Mas^t . . . — . 16.000 David Allen D^ty Q^r Mas^t . . . — . . 16.000- & Edmond Clark Esq^r . . . — . . 20.000 all of which were rec^d in Aug^t 1781. and has not been accounted for with the United States, but as the State of Virginia had a knowledge of those advances, a probability arises that they have accounted with the State, in account of depreciation if so I would wish to have a certificate from a proper Officer that their accounts might be closed in this office Jam^d &c^a J Howell J^r [J. Howell off^r —] Loan Office Richmond Dec^t 12^th 1788- Dear Howell You will be pleased to refer to the papers of my office as Ass^t Com^s Army Accounts under the letter T— see Cap^t Benj^a Taliaferro's account— in which you will find a Certificate signed by Benj^a Harrison J^r as D. Pay M^r Gen^l, that Cap^t Taliaferro had lodged in his hands receipts for the payment of the 538.000 doll^s rec^d for 36 soldiers prisoners. — this you will be pleased to certify to M^r Hopkins that the notes for Cap^t Taliaferro's pay of 1782 & 1783 may be received. — I solicited your immediate attention at the request of a friend & beg you to favor me with what will authorise M^r Hopkins to deliver the notes by first post Jam^d &c^a A Dunscomb [And^w Dunscomb. —] Office of Army Accounts New York Jan^y 6. 1789 Dear Sir I have attended to the request contained in your letter of the 12 Dec^r and by appealing to the accounts of M^r Harrison have obtained the original papers alluded to in his certificate & rec^d to Cap^t Taliaferro on file with your papers as Ass^t Commissioner — by this post I shall write to M^r Hopkins and inform him he is at liberty to deliver Cap^t Taliaferro the notes due him for balance of Specie pay of 1782 & 1783 — as those receipts has exonerated the Cap^t from those charges which appeared agains him, — your letter was a long time travelling — it did not reach me untill the 3^d inst. — J Howell J^r [Cap^t Ab^m de Huff } Lancaster }] Office of Army Accounts New York Jan^y 13^th 1789 Sir Your letter of the 29^th Dec^t last is received — conceiving you entitled to the years pay allowed to o