me to receive any part of the securities now to be issued to the army. The late 4th Connecticut regiment has no agent appointed to receive theirs. I wish they might be delivered to Mr. Beers, as the principal part of the officers and men belong to this county.

The 2d Connecticut regiment I suppose General Swift will receive, as he is agent; otherwise I should like them also delivered to Mr. Beers, in order that the several charges made against individuals might be rightly understood from my accounts.

I shall, after the securities are issued to the several regiments, apply to your office with my accounts stated for settlement.

I conclude that the accounts made out by Mr. Clark, for 1783, as well as those I handed you, are rightly understood, so that the securities can be issued to the two regiments at the time the other regiments in the Connecticut line receive theirs, as no advice has been received to the contrary.

I send my account by Mr. Beers for the extra pay as Paymaster, which was to be paid in Morris' notes, or money for those who attended to the settlement of accounts. Likewise, the amount due for subsistence, I should receive it as a particular favor to have it paid him.

I am your obedient servant,

JOHN PIERCE, P. M. Gen.

JOHN SHERMAN.

POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., May 17, 1783.

SIR-I was honored with yours of the 8th inst. I remember exceeding well having a bundle of papers from you, on account of expenses attending the transportation of cannon to Farmington, but cannot recollect the amount; and as these vouchers shared the same fate with almost the whole of my other papers, I do not esteem myself at liberty to give any new vouchers until Congress has pointed out some general course by which my conduct ought to be regula ted in all such cases.

I am, with the greatest respect, sir,

Your most obedient, humble servant,

Col. EBENEZER STEVENS.

UDNY HAY, D. Q. M. Gen.

PHILADELPHIA, June 3, 1783.

SIR-This morning I received your letter relative to the money advanced you to pay for the transportation of the ordnance and stores from Albany to Farmington.

I must inform you that immediately on my return, I made up my account for every farthing received by me, and gave it you; soon after which it was examined and approved by the Auditors at Albany, and referred to Colonel Hay, as being in his department, for settlement at which time I delivered you every paper relative to the transaction, and have never since seen any of them. Having done with them entirely, the receipt given you was cancelled; and you having delivered the papers to Colonel Hay, who also examined and admitted them, exonerates you from blame by his misfortune. He repeatedly offered you a discharge, and I always thought you had it, and that the whole matter was settled long since. Colonel Hay, upon application, will certainly certify that the whole was settled, which I suppose will be satisfactory.

With regard to the pay received by me and my department, you will find it by examining the abstracts; but I will send you a copy of the account as it stands between us, from which you can extract any sums that ought to be charged the public which remain unaccounted for.

You will see that I have accounted with you for all that I ever received, except the money for the transportation, which, having settled with you on my return, closed the transaction on my partnor have I a scrap of paper on the subject. Having done the business for you, and the examination having been made and approved, I conceived myself as exonerated, and made no register of the matter.

Brother Ben will sail in a few days for the Cape. He presents abundance of love.

With affection, I remain yours,

Col. EBENEZER STEVENS.

SAMUEL HODGDON.

RAEDING, Decemper 24, 1783.

DEIR SIR:-I Schold Dack it as a graet faver, you wold be so

kint and to Ender My Name and Capt. Jacob Mytinger of my Troop in the Boock of Sociedy of Sencinates for whech we have Laft a Monts Pay whet the Pay Master Generale of the arMy, and hafe encloset a Certificat from the Pay Master Generale, whech mentionet that the Money May be Trowen as Sun the order is Broeduset. I schall be Blaesed to you, you will Rid me a Lader and Mentionet what Money must be send for Endrens, if der is any oder Exbenses, you will be so Kint as to lad us Know. My Seff and Capt. Mytinger will Comply whet what you schalle Tin proper, Sir, I Remin whet the Gradest Estim

Your Efectiont frend and M. H. S.

Col. HARMER, at Mrs Srunk's Tawern,}

Second Streed, Philadelphia.

BARTHW. VON HEER,

Major Light Dragoons.

ANNAPOLIS, Jan. 1, 1784.

SIR-About the time we adjourned from Princeton I received a line from you, to which you would probably have discovered before this time that I had paid every attention possible; but there have not since that time been nine States represented in Congress. Your concerns are delayed with the most important ones of the nation.

On the application of some foreign officers for some immediate pay, a committee was appointed some time ago, of which I am chairman. The journals ought to show what has and what has not been promised or done for the foreign officers who have been in our service; but there are many different opinions as to the manner in which our executive officers construe the meaning of those journals.

Be so good as to inform me, whether in settling the accounts of foreign officers who have been in our service they have been allowed half-pay. If half-pay has been allowed to any of them, whether it has been indiscriminately allowed to those who had and to those who had not taken the oath of fidelity to the United States. I have the honor to be your obedient servant, HUGH WILLIAMSON.

JOHN PIERCE, Esq.

John Hughes, and

COMPTROLLER-GENERAL'S OFFICE, Jan. 30, 1784.

SIR: The State has paid to Lieutenants Benjamin Marshall, Morrison, of the Pennsylvania line, the and forty-six dollars and two-thirds of a dolmonths' pay, which you will please to charge

sum of one hundred
lar, each, being for 5
them with at the settlement of their accounts.
I am your friend and very humble servant,

JOSEPH HOWELL, Esq.

JOHN NICHOLSON, Aud. Gen.

BOSTON, Nov. 18, 1784.

SIR:-Your favor of the 18th September, by Captain Thomas H. Condy, I have received. I am exceedingly disappointed that Captain Condy was not able to settle my accounts, as he was fully empowered by me for that purpose. I flatter myself that by this time you have been able to find my account, with the vouchers. If they are not already examined, I request you to have them taken. up the first opportunity after the receipt of this, as I am very anxious to have them adjusted. A line from you, by the post, on this subject, will lay me under a particular obligation.

I am, with great esteem, your obedient servant,

JOHN PIERCE, Esq., P. M. Gen.

HENRY JACKSON.

TRENTON, Dec. 11, 1784.

SIR-I should be very much obliged to you to inform me, whether, by the orders of Congress, the widow or children of a Major-general who lost his life in the service is entitled to the halfpay of a Major-general for seven years, or to that of a Colonel only. There is a dispute in the State of Massachusetts which is suspended on the decision of this question.

If you think the case clear, your opinion, with the grounds of it, will no doubt give satisfaction; but if you are in any doubt, I shall apply to Congress for an explanation of those acts.

I am, with the highest esteem, your obedient servant,
GEORGE PARTRIDGE.

Col. JOHN PIERCE, P. M. Gen.

NORWICH, Dec. 16, 1784.

SIR: Since I wrote you last, respecting my ration accounts (an answer to which I have not had the pleasure, although Mr. Brown tells me you wrote me by Mr. Lovell), I recollect that I signed them in a form that might answer for a discharge in full; and should you leave the office, it might be concluded by your predecessor that the accounts were settled and paid. I presume that the act of Congress of the 3d of June supersedes the necessity of Colonel Stewart's vouchers.

If it appears so to you, I will be much obliged to you to pay the balance due me on those accounts to Mr. Pelatiah Webster, and beg the favor of him, in my behalf, to send it to me by some convenient opportunity, or to bring it when he next comes to Norwich.

I am, dear sir, with great regard, your humble servant,

JOHN PIERCE, P. M. Gen., Philadelphia.

JEDEDIAH HUNTINGTON.

NEW YORK, Dec. 24, 1784.

SIR-I am under the necessity of requesting the favor of you to examine the muster-rolls of the Invalid Corps; and in Captain Woelport's company you will find a man by the name of Simon Peterson, who was formerly a soldier in the 4th New York regiment, cominanded by Colonel Henry B. Livingston. The said Peterson was sent to Simsbury Hospital when the regiment lay at Wyoming, in October, 1779, and he was invalided from that place the latter part of that year, or in 1780, on account of a bayonet having been run through his foot. He served in the Invalid Corps until 1783, when he was legally discharged on pension, but unfortunately lost his discharge, and by that means was deprived of his depreciation, pension, and all other emoluments which are due to him from the State of New York, unless he can make it appear he served in the Invalid Corps after he left the New York line. After you have examined the rolls, you will be kind enough to send such a certificate back by Mr. Horton, the bearer, as will