[cover/address leaf with notation: W. C / [undecipherable] / [undecipherable]] may 1786 May it please Your Excellency I have to request the favour, that a Commission may be granted to William Bearing for 2 Lieut. in the first Company of Artillery in the room of Captⁿ Plaisted, who declines Serving; inclosed is his Commission. You will please to order the Commanding Gen^l to furnish two pieces of Cannon with their Apparatus — and to have them repaired and the Carriages &c^a put in good order previous to delivering them to Capt. Woodward, who informs me the Company will soon be compleated and ready for disciplining — I am Your Excellency's ob^t H^ble Ser^t Tho^s Thompson To his Excellency John Langdon Esq^r