[Page 90] M^r Henry Pendleton jun^r Culpeper County Virginia Accountants Office December 7 179[?] Sir I received your letter of the 27 Ult[imo] requesting information in what manner you are to settle your account. In answer to which I have to inform you, that you must make out an account current, charging the monies received from any person or per[son] on a/c of the pay &c of Col^o Campbell's Reg^t and crediting the advanc[es] made, agreeably to the pay Rolls, on which you received the several adva[nces] (provided you have wholly disbursed the same) making out at sam[e] time a list of balances remaining in your hands. — This done, you w[ill] be pleased to transmit them to this Office per post, or you may if you th[ink] proper render them to Col^o Heth the State Agent for settlement and re[mit] to him any monies remaining in your hands — Sam^e &c W Simmon[s] Ass^t M^r John Coryell adm^r to the Estate of Jos^h Dougherty deceas^d Trenton New Jersey. Accountants Office December 8 1797 Sir I received your letter of the 6 Inst[ant] have to inform you, that it will be essentially requisite for you to arra[nge] several vouchers for payments made by Jos^h Dougherty, late pay master to [a] Reg^t of New Jersey Militia, and transmit them to this Office for examin[ation] or you may place them in the hands of William Dayton Esq^r the State [Agent] for Settlement. — but previous thereto you will be pleased to ascertain the a[mount] of the monies unaccounted for by the late pay Master (Jos^h Dougherty) a[nd]