Burlington March 8 1788. At the request of my sister, widow of the late Capt Giles Jones I am induced to trouble you with a few lines to request that you will be so good as to take the trouble to look over the papers & accounts that she will give to you by this conveyance & to have them adjusted for her in your office — the account sent to you is as accurate as I could be drawn out from the papers that she has in her possession — Capt Jones having lost all his enlistments & other papers with his Baggage at the Battle of Brandywine & the Muster Rolls & other papers being left with the company when he resigned but you having all his Muster Rolls in your office can easily ascertain the number of men he inlisted as all the men in his Company must have been inlisted by him as he had no officers recruiting for his company but Capt [undecipherable] who accompanied him to the northward & any men Capt [undecipherable] might have inlisted must have joined the company that he did to the northward — Lieut [undecipherable] 100 Dollars of Capt Jones for recruits but I can find no paper that gives any account of any men inlisted by Lieut [undecipherable] but should he have inlisted any