[Butler, Richard Col, 8^th & 9^th Penn. Reg^t. Rev. War] [Feb^y 7^th 1794 from M^rs Maria Butl^r Pittsburg] Pittsburgh Feb^y 5, 1794 Dear Sir Having visited my friend M^r Montgomery, one of the Executors of the estate of the late Gen^l Butler, to apply at your Office for a certificate of fundamental & conclusive for the final settlement of accounts between the United States and his estate, presuming the surrender was general with the C^ol of the Army and from an entry in our Book, and hearing [undecipherable] from say, I was a true & [undecipherable] to her, together with knowing, that G. Butler was punctual in accounts. I [undecipherable] that no attention could desire to present what at this moment would be of consequence to the [undecipherable] County, of a [undecipherable] but unfortunately Public Service — Moreover I am informed by [undecipherable] of that some Months pay was given to the Troops at Lancaster unaccounted for, and I have been directed by him to examine among our Military papers for Vouchers — I have found pay Rolls for the Months of Jan^ry Feb^y March & April 1783 with certificates in [undecipherable] from three Officers [undecipherable] Commissary [undecipherable] and private — to have [undecipherable] from the pay Master [undecipherable] John Pierce, by the hands of Col^l Rich^d Butler, with numberless receipts from Mathias Slough Henry Burry Ganginger &c for Moneys borrowed to make up the pay required — which receipts seem to be finally settled. These papers are so Voluminous the expense would be great to send the whole without a proper necessity presuming at the same time that copies of the whole are somewhere in the Office — that I have to request of you, to please to furnish me with the particular charges that stands against a settlement, and at what time, I will perhaps enable me, to send you such papers as will be sufficient Vouchers for me to satisfy you, and settle the Account — Although I have not the pleasure of a personal acquaintance with you — yet I am encouraged to hope, from the manner I have heard Gen^l [undecipherable] speak of you, that you have sincerely sympathized with his family for his loss, and that you will do every thing in your power to satisfy what I take to be a just due to his Services and if there are any thing in this business, on my part to perform, that you may perceive I am at a loss in please to mention to me unfortunate, Indeed I feel it, that I am call'd from the little domestick cares of my family, to business I know nothing of — labouring in ignorance to save and get as much as will support the little Sons of Gen^l Butler — But in all situations With respect and esteem yours Maria Butler To M^r Howell