[214] will find these notes enclosed and both made payable to you — I shall have no objection to advance Mr. Pike forty dollars more in August — I flatter myself you have received my letter of 22^d Inst. Jonathan Dayton Esq^r I am Sir &c Elizabeth Town — Joseph Howell --- W. D. Accountants Office July 23, 179[4?] [Sir] I have received your letter of 10^th Inst with its enclosures — I am not furnished with sufficient information to make a settlement of Major George M. Bedinger's account for pay, rations and forage, in order to facilitate the business I have written to the paymaster of the troops to furnish me a statement thereof, and as it is probable he may be at a loss respecting the ration account I request the Major to state