[Illegible Text — Some or all of the pages of this file are wholly or in part illegible.] [Address: Doct Thomas Parker, [undecipherable] Philadelphia [undecipherable] / Dep[undecipherable] [undecipherable]] [Endorsement: [undecipherable]] Hon^d [undecipherable] Frederick County Virginia July 7^th 1796 I have received your [undecipherable] Holmes the 15^th [undecipherable] and I am very [undecipherable] to find you have [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Regarded [undecipherable] are again [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] in Doct Shippen & Hutchinson can do the [undecipherable] without the [undecipherable] of the War Office which you will be informed in this [undecipherable]— You know very well I joined the Army in February 1779 on the Capacity of [undecipherable] in which character I continued till the resignation of Doct Roberts at Richmond [undecipherable] was the first day of March [undecipherable] for the Appointment to Generall Wood[undecipherable] [undecipherable] the Troops on their march to the [undecipherable] who told me to consider myself as full Surgeon, but it must [undecipherable] from the Surgeon General of the Army, as I was on my March to Carolina, and what happened [undecipherable] arrived in there [undecipherable] you an Acquainted with, as [undecipherable] it render it out of my power to get the [undecipherable] and ordered my [undecipherable] Attachment to the Army [undecipherable] the end of [undecipherable] Now what [undecipherable] you to do for me is to get [undecipherable] Appointment as [undecipherable] from the time I joining the army till the resignation of Doct Roberts and from that time to full Surgeon in the Virginia Continental [undecipherable] a [undecipherable] Appointment for the [undecipherable] each of which papers must be Signed by Doct Shippen and Hutchinson so that has been the Barrier to [undecipherable] my [undecipherable] — Now [undecipherable] consider the risk I have run in [undecipherable] of my [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] a [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] a review of these matters you would use your Interest in my behalf, and not let me still [undecipherable] in the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] it would be bad for so young a one to [undecipherable] that [undecipherable] which [undecipherable] be the case, should they not come to a [undecipherable] [undecipherable] hope you will give Mr. Nathaniel [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] every [undecipherable] Assistance [undecipherable] he is [undecipherable] [undecipherable] recommend to you Who as an Upright an Honest one My [undecipherable] want in the family, and believe me [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] Most Obedient Humb[le] Servant [undecipherable]— Doct Thomas Parker