Pomfret Dec^r [undecipherable] 179[undecipherable] Dear [undecipherable] The Honourable [undecipherable] [undecipherable] with [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of this week [undecipherable] here [undecipherable] and did you to request [undecipherable] to cast [undecipherable] me [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] it will be [undecipherable] for you. [undecipherable] I be [undecipherable] an [undecipherable]. [undecipherable] [undecipherable] by [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] from you that [undecipherable] famous [undecipherable]. it is [undecipherable] by all parties in the State he is [undecipherable] their [undecipherable] to mine that [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] that [undecipherable] so shall not [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] more [undecipherable] that [undecipherable] is a Number of other Characters of the same [undecipherable] that must go the same way [undecipherable] that [undecipherable] happens will be [undecipherable] from his [undecipherable] situation [undecipherable] I now take the liberty to address you on a subject that immediately concerns my [undecipherable] that is whether in Justice and Equity I am intitled to any allowance in addition to my pay that I have received as a depreciated [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] years I was in the Army under a State Appointment and if I am, where and in what manner I can ap- ply to obtain a gratuity in [undecipherable] I have the Honor to be Sir Your most obed^t Hum^ble Serv^t [undecipherable] [Pomfret (Dec: 11^th 1790 — Ezekiel Cornell Esq^r]