[403] will be please to [undecipherable] from his [undecipherable] on [undecipherable] [undecipherable] & transmit to this Office the usual Certificates to that States Sam &c W.S. The Hon.^ble the Accountant's Office Silas Holoyoke Esq; March 2^d 1801 Sir Conformably to the inquiry [undecipherable: relative?] by your notes a few days ago the Register of the claims of the 9^th Massachusetts Reg^t late commanded by Col. Wiggins has been examined & the name of Israel [undecipherable] does not appear therein. I do not find that any Settlement has ever been [undecipherable] with him. [undecipherable] if it should [undecipherable] he had [undecipherable] a claim which had not been [undecipherable] it would be too late to make application all claims for services &c under the former Government having long since been barred & forfeited by acts of Limitation — Sam &c W.S. Griffiths & M^cPh[undecipherable] Esq March 2^d 1801 — Consul Wilmington N.C. Sir I received your letter dated [undecipherable] 11^th Ulto enclosing the receipt of thirteen [undecipherable] for one thousand [undecipherable] which will be entered on record on the Books of this Office — Sam &c W.S.