222 extent — in last charge against you in that account is a sum which appears that you have been drawn — your subsistence up to August 1793 which agreeable to your attestation is see you — has been drawn — Col Cha^s Harrison [undecipherable: Phea] New York January 2^d 1797 Dear Sir the enclosed Letter I wish you to seal & forward to Colonel Harrison who left them in your [undecipherable: funeral] —— Your Letter of Dec^r 22^d is received — It appears at first [undecipherable: sight] singular that the Officers which retired in 1779 should not be allowed their Commission and that Colonel Hopkins who continues that is left the service in the same year without signing [undecipherable] & [undecipherable] to this allowance for the want of the Minutes [undecipherable: Rolls] of the [undecipherable: Document] now with you in the last Months in 1779 I am unable to ascertain the merits of his claim, at the [undecipherable: necessary] for him to prove from the evidence or some other original record made at the time, in what manner he left the Service and then I shall be able to determine whether his claims can be granted without a reference of it to Congress. The accounts of John [undecipherable: Foster] John Reasons & John Mc^Dowell have [con