Office of Army Accounts New York March 16. 1789 Dear Sir, Inclosed you will receive a Recruiting Account of Captain [undecipherable] John Savage accompanied by twelve Musters — the I am not to Expect of the Muster Rolls of the late 6^th Reg^t earlier than for the month of August 1777 I am under the necessity of requesting You to examine the Pay Rolls from the date of Enlistment to the 1^st of July 1st left with you and see if Samuel Rogers, John Jenkins, John Smyth, William Dale & John Lalley are mustered for their Pay — those men are not in the musters in this office & therefore I cannot at present be admitted to the Credit of M^r Savage this has induced me to make his Accounts present wherein you will please to observe in the first that M^r Savage is in debt to the [underline: United] States and in the second in case those men are [found] that a balance is due him If the names of a any of those Men are found by you, you will please to insert their Bounty in the Recruiting Acc^t and transmit M^r Savage a Certificate of their being legally mustered —