War Department Accountants Office Feby. 22^d 1793 Sir I have Rec'd a letter from Doc Hutchins in which he informs me that he has settled his Accounts with Mr. Brill to the 1 Aug. last I received a balance of forty seven dollars, lest there should be any mistake in this business I have enclosed you a copy of his Account as settled by me in October last the balance of which has been paid to the Doc's Attorney [strikethrough: I have wrote to the Doc a [undecipherable] to my making [undecipherable] advances to his Agent here & [undecipherable] him [undecipherable] to you] The Doc has earnestly requested me to [undecipherable] all his pay & [undecipherable] as it becomes due to pay the same to his Attorney here but as you have given you [lately?] [undecipherable] of [some] measures of [his] [undecipherable] Nature I have [declined] to [undecipherable] at [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — There is a poor Woman by the name of Cole who has heard that her husband William Cole, of the Artillery, was killed on the 4 of Novem. 1791 — I wish you would make enquiry for her & inform me — I am Sir Your obed' S' J Howell — [To Caleb Swan Eq^r Feby 22 1793] [Caleb Swan Esq.]