Department of War Accountants Office March 26. 1790 Sir Your letter of 16 Inst. & the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] information in [undecipherable] Stevenson. [it] appears, probable from one of the rolls that he must [be] [undecipherable] by the name [of] [undecipherable] his pay has not been [undecipherable] for want of [undecipherable] how far he had been paid previously to his joining [undecipherable] [undecipherable]. if you can inform of this matter [undecipherable] by whom he was [undecipherable] & where he has been & [undecipherable] me [undecipherable] I may be enabled to find out by the rolls in [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to authorize you to [undecipherable] him on the 31 [undecipherable] this [undecipherable] to return him [undecipherable] muster I will then [undecipherable] his pay with [undecipherable] accounts of your [undecipherable] at the same time — I am Sir your ob'd Serv't Joseph [undecipherable: Howell] [undecipherable] Martin [undecipherable: Charlotte]