Sir Annapolis July 9^th 1784 Agreeable to your request I have inclosed my Rec^t as Officer and for [undecipherable: Stating] the Pay M[aste]r of the Maryland [Line] in which I have charged my [Pay] from the date of my qualification, to this day I inform you that I [already] [accepted] the Appointment, which I did only upon the Principle of [undecipherable] you money from the Information which I may continue to [give]. But have very urgently given you a [View] that will greatly injure the Character of another, and without redress endeavour to deprive him of the means of getting a [Support] for himself and Family, is in my opinion a far more respectable Character than I [undecipherable] [undecipherable], and I [flatter] my self that when I have the pleasure of [seeing] you at Annapolis, you will upon reflection do me the justice to give me the [Notice] of your [Supposed] [inference] they have [said] any thing to [give] [rise] to any [undecipherable] Character. [Such Men] ought to be [known], but [then] that request to [refuse] [it]. I have the pleasure of [knowing] that they are [branded] with the [undecipherable] they so [freely] [mete], and that they must often [bear] it. I think I [convinced] you when in this City that I had [said] any thing in my power to bring on a [Settlement] with our [house], [at last] give you [undecipherable] to understand that you was perfectly [undecipherable: satisfied] with my [account], but perhaps through the [hurry] of business while here, the Conversation and [that] may have [partly] [undecipherable] your Memory. [Therefore] [may] not be amiss now to [undecipherable: mentioned] that [upon] the receipt of my App^t I [undecipherable] and [relied] upon [Gen.] [undecipherable] who [Commands] our [Line] for any Information he [need] give me, but as he had not been with The Army for a considerable time, it was not in his power to give me any, and [refer] me to the Officer Commanding [Regiments]. [There] [that] I [had] an Off^r of [Being] [Especially] [appointed] to me, thus I [wrote] to [different] [times], and [offered] their [good] [and] Officers [& Men] to call on three of them in my [Name] for [Muster] Rolls, and any other papers respecting the [Pay] they [had been] [undecipherable] to [send] [undecipherable] [Commands], but I [had] not received a [single] paper in Consequence of those Applications, in consequence of my [Advertisements] in the [Annapolis] and [Baltimore] News Papers. [Being] Appointment [you] refused, and that there [undecipherable] in the [Books] of the United States, against a great [number] of Officers of our [Line], which you was to have furnished to me, but [they] never came to my Hands, in [consequence] of the [Gov[ernor]] of this State against the [Line] [that] being at this time furnished. So that if I had [been] furnished with the [Muster] Rolls I need not have [completed] the [Statement] of an Officers Rec^t for want of [their] [Accounts]. I [flatter] my self that [these] Circumstances [undecipherable] in the [through] cannot by any means be attributed to me, and that you will be of opinion that from every principle of justice and equity, I am entitled to the Pay charged in my Rec^t, and [undecipherable], as I [endeavored] [entering] into the [undecipherable], or any other [Attempts] in Consequence of this App^t which would have been much more to my advantage, but as I had accepted it I thought I could not with any degree of propriety Resign, and that it was my Duty to devote my time and attention until the business was Completed. — I also in Consequence of having this Appoint^t purchased a Tract of Land, for which I gave a [Bond] which in a few Months will be due, and Should I be deprived of the Emoluments I am justly entitled to, I shall be under the disagreeable necessity of Disposing of the only House I have, and [undecipherable] of my Personal Property to discharge my Bond which [will] be so great an Injury to myself and Family (whose [sole] Dependance is on my exertions for their [Support]) that I shall not be able to relieve it.— I am with Respect [undecipherable] Sir Your very Hum^ble Serv^t Inclosed is a Rec^t of my qualification.— Tho^s Gahaway [John [undecipherable] Esq^r / Pay Master [undecipherable] / Philadelphia] [undecipherable: forwarded [undecipherable]]