[To: Hon^ble War Office, April 16. 1788] War Office. April 16. 1788 Sir/ In consequence of your kind offer to endeavor to obtain payment of some Warrants for public service, drawn by the Treasury Board on W^m Imlay Esq^r receiver of Continental Taxes for the State of Connecticut, I have the honor to transmit to you by Lieu^t Platt the bearer, warrants drawn by the said Board on W^m Imlay Esq^r on the 14^th Instant for the sum of 25`000 dollars. The Warrants are divided for the purpose of easy negociation as follows. N<sup>o</sup> 302 600 Dollars N<sup>o</sup> 303 to 310 inclusive, being warrants @ 600 Dollars 9000. d<sup>o</sup> N<sup>o</sup> 313 to 332 inclusively being 20 Warrants @ 500 d<sup>o</sup> each 10000. d<sup>o</sup> N<sup>o</sup> 333 to 353 inclusively being 21 Warrants @ 400 dollars 8400. d<sup>o</sup> ________ Boa<sup>t</sup> 25`000. As soon as you shall receive the said Warrants I request the favor that you would forward me duplicate receipts for them, holding yourself accountable to me for the same. I have given Lieu^t Pratt recruiting instructions and directed him to apply to you for rations, Barracks, barrack utensils, fuel & Straw and if necessary some Shoes. and also money to the amount of half a months pay for 130 men; which will amount to 260 dollars. I hope your receipts will enable you to make this advance. The price of the ration not to exceed the price charged in your accounts for the supplies of Colonel Humphrey's recruits. I have directed Lieu^t Pratt as soon as he shall have recruited 20 men to march them to West Point. This measure will prevent the difficulties experienced from Colonel Humphrey's recruits. The recruits are exceedingly wanted for the public interests on the Frontiers to which they will be marched by companies as fast as they shall be engaged. The Warrants now forwarded are the sole dependence for the recruiting, and other Services, and transportation of the troops and stores to the frontiers, not only from Connecticut, but for the other States in which men are to be recruited. I wish exceedingly to complete the two companies raised in Massachusetts, the deficiencies of which amount to about 70 men, but I am diffident until I shall learn from you the probability of the payment in part of the Warrants now forwarded. I am Sir Your Most Obedient Humble Servant Knox The Hon^ble Col^o l^r Bradsworth's.