[338] January 10^th February 26^th May 27^th June 14^th August 10^th and November 2^d [undecipherable] and March 9^th 1779 was confined by the Commander in Chief and Commissions were granted on the 17^th of November 1779 from the War office to those officers that were then arranging for this arrangement Major Painter was omitted as appears by the Rolls in the War Office of those Officers that are continued and therefore he must be considered as a Supernumerary from that time and entitled to receive a years pay only, by virtue of the resolve of November 22^d 1779. The appointment in the Artificers if considered as superseding his military one in Warners Regiment, would grant no reimbursement of more importance than this; for in that case he must be deemed as deranged by the Act of November 12^th 1779 reorganizing the Artificers and when which he was omitted, as an other Major arranged to the Regiment. I must be convinced that the appointment of Major Painter when it was determined by him not to join his Regiment and the Commander in Chief has given his sanction to this determination by directing him to another duty, at rather if that of a Major at large than as belonging to a particular Regiment which construction would indeed grant to his widow the seven years half pay she has petitioned for but the difficulty is that his whole claim must be founded on his appointment in Warners Regiment, as he was never displaced from the Regiment or legally received any thing of equal validity In Pierce To Gen Wadsworth New York Feb^y 27^th 1788 Dear Sir I have received your letter of the 5^th Ultimo and thank to the reason you assign that it will be best for you to forward the account of the State for Arms, Accoutrements & Blankets, to my Office which in caution I prefer that I examine them than hand them over to any other Officer — I am Dear Sir Your In Pierce To Jonathan Haskell Esq^r