entitle the incorporation of that Regiment with the second. Therefore must suppose his pay must have been drawn by the Captain of the Company, as was too customary at that period — You will inform Lieut. Boys that he stands charged with the sum of Sixty dollars paid him by Colonel Walter Stewart on the 7 January 1778 for the recruiting Service which sum should be accounted for on the resignation of M^r Boys indeed — I am &c. M^r Alex^r Benstead J Howell Jun^r New York February 27^th 1789 Dear Sir A few days since I saw an extract of a Law published by you calling on those who have a claim for depreciation by a certain day otherwise they would be foreclosed — As I only left one department to join another and continued untill Congress were pleased by their act of 11 day of September 1781 to annihilate the department, I conceive myself clearly entitled to the