[33] [S/] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] 1786 The Canadian at [undecipherable] has are much in a want [undecipherable] I have furnished them with two days allowance after giving the hooks up to [undecipherable] distant and the [undecipherable] that I received in New York Joseph Dufour the Frenchman, that C[undecipherable] they wanted Discharged, does not want it upon the principle of going with the Canadian refugees, as he will not go with them — but he want it by getting a bran in his plan. I am Sir &c The Honorable [undecipherable] God [undecipherable] [undecipherable] --- [S/] [undecipherable] Port [undecipherable] August 1788 I have forwarded by the [undecipherable] the Returns of [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] Master [undecipherable] for the month of July [undecipherable] I am sorry to inform you with the [undecipherable] in Connecticut Then [undecipherable] by desertion, had [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] then the line of Connecticut had [undecipherable] to New York on [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]. The [undecipherable] has given a [undecipherable] to the [undecipherable] and to [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] from you the other is the [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] to sixteen for a [undecipherable] on the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] to confine him to [undecipherable] in the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — The [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the night of [undecipherable] July and [undecipherable] a [undecipherable] near [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] them [undecipherable] Morning but have not been able to [undecipherable] them The five men that are here is very [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [strikethrough: [undecipherable]] when account of their not getting some hay; [undecipherable] of them have been in [undecipherable] better than twelve months and have heard but one months hay — if the prisoners would admit that they [undecipherable] Could receive a [undecipherable] if not are the [undecipherable] a [undecipherable] [undecipherable] it was not more than a quarter of their [undecipherable] I am [undecipherable] to think it would [undecipherable] [undecipherable] prevent the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] I have wrote to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] that he may [undecipherable] them and forward some [undecipherable] in the same way as they [undecipherable] carry [undecipherable] from the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] that [undecipherable] but the [undecipherable] are [undecipherable] what they have [undecipherable]