great difficulty) — will you once more interpose your kindness so far on the subject as to certify that Cap^t Thatcher has lodged sufficient vouchers in your Office to authorize his account for raising a Cap^t that Company & that he is entitled to the same Allowance as other Officers on the same establishment for the bounty, first months hay & providing gun & blanket &c for his Company, or will you in some other way remove the difficulty which you will understand from M^r Wolcotts letter better than myself — If the inclosed Vouchers are not sufficient pray be good enough to advise how I may for both compleat the testimony of your Office, for there only am I in respect the buisness finished Sam^l Thatcher [To the above letter was without date, rec. in Dec^r 1780] Cap^t Sam^l Thatcher, Stafford Fairfield County Connecticut Office of Army Accounts New York Dec. 26. 1780 Sir, Your letter bearing no date was a few days since received — the money advanced Cap^t Thatcher being entirely a State charge, it lies in the breast of the Comptroller of that State to admit or reject the evidence produced by Captain Thatcher, and no officer under the United States can possibly have a controul over his opinion while acting under the authority of the State it would therefore be highly improper for me to interfere in the buisness of M^r Wolcott or to give any directions in the buisness now depending — To assist Cap^t Thacker, as far as it lays in my power, I have had a strict examination into —