HKnox April 21st 1787 War Office April 21st, 1787 8326 Sir In consequence of your favor of the 15’th instant, I have obtained two warrants from the Board of Treasury, on William Imlay Esq: receiver of Continental taxes, for the State of Connecticut; one, for 3,000, and the other for 1,500 dollars which are to discharge the arrearages to Colonel Humphreys’s corps, and for other public purposes, for the payment of both of which, I beg your influence. Encouraged by your kind offers, I have endorsed these warrants, payable to you, and now enclose them, and request you to be so good as to forward me, immediately, duplicate receipts, of the tenor herein enclosed, for the same - You will also please to inform me when you shall receive the money for the same, which you will please to hold subject to my order. As soon as Colonel Humphreys will forward the musters, and accounts, a warrant will be issued, by me, on the paymaster, for the precise sum which shall be found due. [undecipherable] I have the honor to be, Sir Your most obedient and very humble Servant HKnox Col. Jeremiah Wadsworth