New York 5 April 1790 Dear Sir Your favor of the 14^th of December last I duly received, and last evening I also received yours of the 8^th of last month — I can convince the Commis^rs at St Clairs Hearing if they are honest men, that the insinuations in their fathers note were on account of the £110 original from his own pen and I will never confine to any Man confirmation of his assertions — M^r Ducher, Holmer on his own hand writing, which I have inclosed in his left book and he good enough — on the last — but the note itself is all that would be necessary — I am sensible, of the uncertainty of my merit while the [undecipherable: Military] [Page 1 A3x06]