which I am convinced I just to the name of the person who was taken care of and attended by M^rs M^rs Williams — This woman is Poor and the reflection of assisting one so circumscribed, I am fully convinced will be ample compensation to your benevolent disposition — a thought has just struck me wherein you will be able to make the obligation more weighty, that is, by the trouble of looking over the Pay due for the months of January February March & April 1783 upon which you will find a balance due. I got it secured for M^rs Wellensons, as her claim is fair — Joseph Howell Esquire I am with usual esteem, A^t [undecipherable] --- [Pay Table Office Hartford June 19^th 1787] Dear Sir I must request of you the favor to transmit to me a copy of the Pay Roll for Cap^t Joe Thatcher's company of Col^o Swift's Regiment in the Northern army in the year 1776 — I am Sir with Respect &c Oliver Wolcott J^r [Jo^s Perse Esq^r]