Sir,

We have received your letter dated the 11^th ul^o requiring a Remittance of 20,000 Dollars to pay off Bills against the Frigate Trumbull. As it is high Time that your Accounts against that Vessel were closed, we must request that you will make them up and produce them to the Navy Board at Boston¹ for examination and we shall give Orders for the payment of the balance that may be justly due to you. We are sir Your hble servants 

M^r Barnabas Deane.

[Superscribed] M^r Barnabas Deane Wethersfield Connecticut

[Endorsed] Hon^be Henry Laurens Esq^r April 11^th 1778