for your support while prisoner I have to request that you attend at this office as soon as possible with your vouchers for the respective items of this money in order that the account may be finally closed ^Jr Howell C. Richmond Esquire Office of Army Accounts New York Jan^y 14. 1789 Dear Sir I wrote you the 2^d & 30 Ulti: and enclosed a return of the artillery of Maryland as required by you — Your letters of the 2^d Ulti: & 2 Inst are now before me, the British packet has not yet sailed, therefore your letters are still with me — If, by the papers a vessel advertised to sail for London in the course of a week or two — if this one sails previous to the packet I conceive I shall comply with your wishes in forwarding them by her — On examining the Books of the Office I find Cap^t: Carlisle his letter for his pay to the 1 Jan^y 1789 and has not noticed the monies received of the State of Maryland — his pay for the year 1783 and his commutation (if he continued to the end of the war) appears still due him, as it does not appear to have been received by him or the Agent of the regiment, however I do not think myself justifiable in issuing the certificates without some Vouchers — I therefore wish you to inform from that it is necessary to send on an account against the United States for his services & I wish it to be qualified as it appears mysterious to me that Cap^t Carlisle should make