Sir New York Sept. 4. 1787. Your Letter of the 26 April last respecting Your brothers settlement, has been received — in Answer to which I have to inform you, that he is returned on the Arrangement of the Georgia Line. as having burned his Commiss^o in disgust to the Service. that the Commission which Came inclosed in your letter appears to have been given originally to Some other Person of a different rank. whose name has been erased. and that of Edward Wood, inserted in the place of it— and that by a resolution of Congress limitting the Exhibition of all Army claims to the first of August 1786. he is totally precluded from a settlement in my Office. was his Claim ever so well evidenced, without a Special resolution of Congress for that Purpose— M^r. James Wood Georgia.