W.D. Accountants Office January 25^th 1794 Sir I have received your letter of the 8^th Inst and should have answered it sooner if I could have procured the information requested by you which I now find to be impracticable. the New Jersey papers were once in my possession, but since the Commissioners have settled the Accounts of the respective States with the [United] States they have been sent to the [Comptrollers] office and locked up. — I do not know that you have any other remedy to procure your certificate in the words of them than by seeing M^r [undecipherable] which I think would be advisable if you are sure he has defrauded you — I am Sir &c Joseph Howell M^r [undecipherable] Jordan Wilmington Delaware