[312] day of December 1797 being the balances due Lieut.^t Richard Walker for Subsistance which accrued in 1797 — I am M^r Peter Edes New York Sept. 26. 1787. The Commissioner of Army Accounts to whom was referred the Petition of Michael Henderson, beg Leave to report; That the Petitioner appears by a Certificate of William McDonald late a Lieut in the British inhabitants Services to have served in the British Army in the War against Canada which Service intitled him to have received by that Kings Proclamation dated the 7 October 1783 a grant for three thousand Acres of Land — That the grants of this Land by the before mentioned proclamation were Confined within the bounds of the present States jurisdictions, and not within the Country now Ceded by the States to the Union — That the Petitioner has produced his own Attestation that he has not received this donation, but it is not in the power of your Commissioner from any records or Papers of the United States to determine who has or who has not received it. That the time & Opportunities which has Elapsed since the Petitioner became entitled to receive this Land