New York August 30 1786 Sir. I have considered the claim of [undecipherable] lately— There is sufficient evidence of his services, to the 11^th of January 1781; the time he received his furlough. after this the returns and musters of the regiments as far as they can be found are totally silent as regards to him. but from the necessity that every Officer who had a commission in the service, should rejoin his Corps at the commencement of each campaign; the proclamations issued for that purpose, I am inclined to suppose that [undecipherable] considered himself as [undecipherable: deserting or dismissed] from out of the service. I believe that a furlough of the nature of his, which was a permission to absent until further orders, could must not be understood for life, but only a reasonable time again when [is?] when the regiment [undecipherable: commanded] cut and [undecipherable] that these orders were, [undecipherable: particularly] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] having no proof, to the Officers who were [undecipherable] were as [undecipherable] in their orders by [undecipherable] being long since [undecipherable] to be come at, but has reasons being [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] in the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] action on [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] therefore very apparent that [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] and is of very [undecipherable] any [undecipherable] after the date of his furlough that he [undecipherable] proved his own [undecipherable] in [undecipherable] after that period, and the [undecipherable] in which he left the Service. It [undecipherable] be very [undecipherable] circumstances It may be necessary to inform you by the [undecipherable: Compt & Paymaster] that by a [undecipherable] made, in the [undecipherable] Regiment [undecipherable], the accounts of [undecipherable] begin, [undecipherable] is [undecipherable: entered] as having left the regiment some time in 1781. [August 30 1786 / [undecipherable] / [undecipherable]] [1£ 364] [Read [undecipherable].]