[Page 1 is a placeholder card reading "Illegible Text — Some or all of the pages of this file are wholly or in part illegible."] [Address leaf: General Knox / Secretary of War / [To] Philadelphia / [notation:] rec] my dear friend Boston Dec^r 10. 1794 The [undecipherable] since I have d[undecipherable] [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] this [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] The arrival of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] letter [undecipherable] Col[undecipherable] [undecipherable] he is the [undecipherable] Col[undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] a Reg[iment] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the year 1780 — Mr. B[undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Col[onel] B[undecipherable]s Regiment [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the account of 1783 w[undecipherable] [undecipherable] out my Regiment [undecipherable] till that Regiment was Disbanded [undecipherable] 1784 — The [undecipherable] Mr. B— came out of the [Army] he enter[ed] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] before [undecipherable] has pursued the [undecipherable] of life ever since, he regularly rose from merit to [second] [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] Captain, which last grade he has [served] for many years with the first reputation [undecipherable] about 35 years — he is a [undecipherable] [capable], active good man — [undecipherable] D[o] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — he will accept [undecipherable] on Board of one of the Continental Sh[ips] from the unequivocal knowledge I have of him, I do recommend him in the [strongest] terms for the appointment he [solicits] — I pledge myself he will do [honor] to [both] [and] Country — your [affectionate] H. [undecipherable] [Address on verso: Gen. H[undecipherable]]