New York January 15^th 1787 Sir, I have considered your claim upon the United States, and find that you were made a prisoner on the 25^th of September 1777, and that you were exchanged on the seventh of December 1782 that during this time by on the 1^st of May 1779 the regiment in which you belonged was incorporated with that [undecipherable] Alltons — and that you were omitted in that arrangement and then considered as retiring from the Service. You are therefore comprehended within the resolution of June 26^th 1786 of which I enclose a copy — I will settle your account on the principles of this resolution on your obtaining a verified copy of your depreciation account settled with the State which statement will allow you Pay to the time of your exchange and the years pay on your appointment as a retiring Officer — The difficulty you [undecipherable: receive?] from Col: [undecipherable: Hartley?] is that he is not sensible that you resigned your commission which is conformable to the Public records, it therefore places you on no better footing than those records and indeed it must be presumed that the Colonel has no official means of information respecting the Officers of his regiment after February 15^th 1779 when he resigned his appointment in the army. Capt. Chr. [undecipherable: Crozall?]