[undecipherable] [undecipherable: Capt. [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] thereof / [undecipherable] from our / [undecipherable] thereof / [undecipherable]] Pay Office New York 26: Jany. 1790 Sir, I have wrote you by this Post, informing that by directions of the Sec^y of War, I have transmitted you by this Mail Stage, the Sum of four hundred &thirty dollars — [undecipherable] the purpose of advancing to each Officer one months pay and to [undecipherable] months pay to each of the Non Commiss'd & Matrosses of [undecipherable] Co. agreeably to an Estimate enclosed, you will [undecipherable] [undecipherable: this Money] to the person who delivers it [undecipherable] the Proprietor of the Mail Stage here, is accountable to [undecipherable] the safe delivery of it. I am Sir Your Obed. Serv^t Jos. Howell Jr