[Copy] S^r I beg leave to acknowledge the Receipt of your Letter of the 18^th Inst with my Account Stated, altho' it was not to my Expectation I suppose it was Right & thank you for the attention paid to the Remittance — You will place to my account one Hundred & twenty Dollars 4⁰ Cents for my Pay & Subsistance up to the first of the present Month they receipt theirof is hereby acknowledged by Your Obed^t H^ble Serv^r New York Dec^r 21^st 1791 B. Maws. [Copy] Joseph Howell Esq^r — Pay Master Gen^l Phil^a