[J Howell J^r esq^r —] Philad^a Decem^r 30^th 1900 [S]ir Have paid to Collins for drawing out the regiment account which is in your Office 96 doll^rs the acct was of no use to you a myself the other day in order was drawn by Collins on me to pay 96 doll^rs more for said and to be repeated to writ of 57 days at 3 acct — pardon me for taking the liberty only would wish to know how long time it would take in making out a regiments account — Camp^t to the Seasons N.B. This letter shod have been entered [undecipherable] on the— [undecipherable] page to M^r de Haa[s] J B de Haas — --- J^no Hopkins esquire — Office of Army Accounts New York Janu^y 16 1789 — Sir M^r Dunscomb in his letter of the 12^th Ins^t last informed me that the Specie pay in your hands due Cap^t Benjⁿ Taliaferro is retained in consequence of sundry sums of money received by him & which I suppose were transmitted you for the purpose of being accounted for previous to your delivering the Specie warrant — on a reference to the papers of Benjⁿ Harrison esq^r D C M Gen^d, it appears that Cap^t Taliaferro left with M^r Harrison receipts for the amount of the monies received by him for pay of sundry soldiers returned from captivity — in consequence of which, I have closed the accounts of Cap^t Taliaferro in the Books of this office — you are therefore fully ob