Philad[elphia] June 28 1784 Dear Sir Your favors of the 10^th & 18 Instant were received; I [undecipherable] acquaint you with that [undecipherable] minutes of [undecipherable] respecting the [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] connect with the [undecipherable] Line, that [undecipherable] this State with [undecipherable] [undecipherable] aside [undecipherable] from their settlements as well [undecipherable] as already to [undecipherable] judge [undecipherable] has been [undecipherable] for with them — [undecipherable] the best [undecipherable] possible be insisted on as to the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] — for this purpose I have already [undecipherable] you [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of Musters for that [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] Army, [undecipherable] will be of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — I [undecipherable] send on the different arrangements of the [undecipherable], for your [undecipherable] respecting the Officers [undecipherable] for pay and [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] — I am [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to send you on a [undecipherable] of my [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — this [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] these, I am to [undecipherable] to be [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable], [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] I hope by the [undecipherable] of August to be able, if my health will permit, to [undecipherable] you a visit, but do [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to this [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for any [undecipherable] — I was [undecipherable] that your family and yourself would [undecipherable] much [undecipherable] in [undecipherable] each other, but as the duty [undecipherable] becomes really [undecipherable], and to the public good, for a few days [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] our [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] not [undecipherable] as to do [undecipherable] to the individuals as well as to [undecipherable] the public — I [undecipherable] that the [undecipherable] of a [undecipherable] [undecipherable] must [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] of it, at most, you will not be [undecipherable], without [undecipherable], to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] of the Secretary at War or the [undecipherable] — but on [undecipherable] to the [undecipherable] you are at liberty to follow [undecipherable] a method you [undecipherable] [undecipherable], provided [undecipherable] is as [undecipherable] [undecipherable] will not lead to [undecipherable]. [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to the [undecipherable], who [undecipherable] [undecipherable] were not [undecipherable]; I am [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — I wrote to [undecipherable] on the subject. [undecipherable] [undecipherable] no other [undecipherable] than [undecipherable] a Member of that Body, who [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] money and are [undecipherable] to no [undecipherable], that [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] by all, if you [undecipherable] on this [undecipherable] you had better therefore to [undecipherable] this [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in your best [undecipherable] you are [undecipherable] that public [undecipherable] equally to the public [undecipherable] as the [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] a public officer [undecipherable] not [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable], [undecipherable] it may lead to [undecipherable]