[from Aaron Bull / 5 June 9. 1784 / a [undecipherable] given] Hartford 1 June 1784 Sir My late Son Epaphras who was a Major in the Southern Army, Died, Leaving Three Children without A Mother, Congress having done Something for such Orphan Children, I take the liberty to Request you will be so Obliging as to Inform me by this bearer M^r M[undecipherable], what it is and how to be Received. Also I would Wish to Know how the Accounts Stand at the Time of his Death, these Informations will Oblige me Much and in Return Should be Happy to Render you Any Service in my Power. I am With Respet your Friend Aaron Bull [M Aaron Bull / June 9. 1784 Copy / Maj Epaphras Bull / 1 Do[c] / [stamp: Noted]] [Copy] Philadelphia June 9. 1784 Sir In answer to your first Question what allowance the children of the late Major Bull shall receive from the public, I must refer you to the Resolves of Congress of August 17. 1774 & August 24. 1780 by which you will be informed that the allowance granted is seven years half pay to be made up or join'd by the State to which the Officer belong'd.— In respect to his accounts previous to his Death I find that M^r [undecipherable] req^t [undecipherable] req^t has drawn some arrears of subsistence due amounting to 56⁹⁰ dols that on [his] ^Majors way to Virg^a he received from [undecipherable] two hundred & [undecipherable] five Dols N Emissions, after which I am unacquainted with the State of his Accounts, the State of Virginia undertook to close the Officer accounts of their Line to July 1. 1782 and a deputy of mine in Virginia being to close them afterwards. M Aaron Bull Hartford. I am is Your Obed^t