[quested in your letter of 23. inst. — D^r Mrs Lawton West point via Peekskill New York — Sam for & Joseph [undecipherable]] W.D. Accountants Office November 20^th 1796 Madam In your letter of the 23. Instant to the Secretary of War, you mention that the receipts of the Soldiers late under the command of Cap^t. Nicholas Hannah, for their pay for the months of Jan^y, Feb^y and March 1794 have been mislaid, or otherwise lost, but if you can get the gentleman who authorized the payment to be qualified thereto, it will answer. I have therefore returned you the pay roll with a Qualification thereon, for the Gentleman to execute; you will please send the date of the death of Cap^t. Hannah. Also the Certificate of the Contractor specifying the time to which he drew rations. I shall on the reception of these papers give my immediate attention to closing the Accounts as no difficulties present, owing to the correctness of Cap^t. Hannah's transactions, with sentiments of sincere sympathy for the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable]