[undecipherable] [Major General Henry Knox at The War office New york] Marlborough May 23: 1789. John Tharpe. [Wishes to know if he is entitled to bounty lands And offers himself a candidate for employ] [Marlborough] May 2[3]^d [1789] Honor'd [Sir] Some days ago I [undecipherable] in a [New york] paper [undecipherable] will [afford] me [undecipherable] to Come to the War office and receive their Bounty for their [L]and and as [it has] been [undecipherable: disappointed in] that, that your Honor'd as Well as my Self [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of those taken they [undecipherable] to in [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] I [undecipherable] and if there is any for me they tell me know and if Will Come [undecipherable] for as the public a [undecipherable] at [undecipherable] post a Will [in]form again [undecipherable] that if those Should be any [undecipherable] there it Could do if Should [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] State and as I have [undecipherable] [undecipherable] as makes me the more free to make known my right to you and your [undecipherable]. [undecipherable] Still any a [undecipherable] and if I Should [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] the State [undecipherable] may [undecipherable] upon those [undecipherable] of faithfull. [undecipherable] John [Tharp] To General Knox