[Docket, top right:] from Lewis Morris / 19 April 1794 / ans'd June 13 — [Addressed to:] Joseph Howell Esq^r. / Accountant for the / War Department [seal] Fort Fidelius April 11^th 1794 Sir There is nothing in my contemplation more grating to the pride of man, than to complain of any neglect shown to us by others, but in this [undecipherable] distress has compelled me to do it to you — when in Philadelphia about the 1 of September last, you were prevented from settling my acc[ount] of pay &c, by the late calamitous fever & I was obliged to come on to this Country without it, hoping that on my arrival here, there would be no bar to an immediate Settlement; but what was my disappointment when told by the agent, that I must wait until he could hear from you, what monies I had been charged with & at what rate to charge the Rations These queries he made in a letter dated the 1 Dec. last to which there has no answer been received, & even when it comes, I shall be told that I can not be paid until the Statement is forwarded and the money remitted — It is now within a few days of 19 Months since I have received either pay or Rations & in that time I have been exposed to the expence of long Journeys, without having been furnished by the public the means of transportation either for myself or my baggage — This Sir has so exhausted my feeble resources, as to oblige me to seek a Credit from the Contractor for every necessary of life, which I do at the loss of nearly or quite 100 p[er] C[ent]. & if I am not soon relieved, I fear that Credit also will be exhausted — I am Sir with respect Your Obd. Sert. Lewis Morris L. of the U.S. Artillery [M[ajo]r. Howell]