This may Certify, that I supplied such provisions by the ration [for] the troops at West Point including the refugees from Canada, from the first Day of Jan^y 1786 to the first Day of July following, and that During the said [term?] according to the best of my knowledge & belief no provisions were issued to the bearer [undecipherable] one, by myself nor [undecipherable] under my Direction. New York July 24 1788 Timothy Ketchum To whom it May Concern