[Docket on outside of letter: from [undecipherable] [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] / Feb'y 10. 1795.] Rendezvous at Springfield Feb. 16. 1795 Sir. Your letter of 9. instant I received by this day's mail — John Clark was enlisted as a Serjeant Oct 17. and reported accordingly — I gave him neither cloathing nor bounty, he being sick of use, and I shan — In Dec. Trowbridge came to the Rendezvous — I knew him to be an experienced and faithful recruiting Serjeant — I could not prevail on him to enlist for the then encouragement — I paid him the bounty due to Clark, dated him back to the day of Clark's inlistment, engaged him the pay due from that date, gave him four dollars out of my own pocket, and discharged Clark — In doing this I trust the public is benefited — The misdate in the Muster Rolls of Dec. 31. was an error of my own inadvertance, quite unintentional — Dwight is a recruit of Captain Lyman's — he has been at this Rendezvous from the time of his inlistment — Captain Lyman consented to leave him with me as a recruiting Corporal in lieu of Jⁿ. Fields, who marched with him — Geiger belongs to my company, and came forward with me from Headquarters in June 92 — I think Sir, your P.S. supercedes the necessity of any explanation relative to payment of Dwight and Geiger — You will desist from late Captain Pratt's detachment at Middleton; Bishop from my Company in Bennington in the summer of 92 — as reported in my letter to the Secretary of War dated 18^th last — The date of their inlistments and desertions I cannot ascertain, not having with me proper documents; both may be ascertained if recourse being had to Captain Pratt's reports — and to my Company Muster Roll of August 92 — Bishop I took up in Windsor Oct. 12 — paid nothing for [undecipherable] him — the expences of his imprisonment and bringing to this Rendezvous he will pay on receipt of his wages — he commenced doing duty Oct. 20 — Howell likewise took up Oct. 11. in New Hampshire; but I paid ten dollars to a Country man to betray him into my hands — This with the expence of bringing to the Rendezvous and goaler fees I shall deduct from his pay, if the mode be proper — I have therefore reported him for duty, finding it necessary to take him from Gaol as his expences increased faster than his pay — I kept him under my eye till I had recruits to mount a guard, he is now in confinement, and reported to the Officer commanding at the Rendezvous in Middleton — whose duty I conceive it to be to take him in custody — In letters to the Secretary of War of Aug. 2^d Oct. 6^th and Jan'y 3^d I have requested instructions whether or not to pay a bill exhibited by Col. Alfred [undecipherable], against Captain Lyman, and left unpaid, for apprehending a felon who broke and plundered the publick House at this place — Once more I solicit instruction relative to that business — The Citizen Colonel is troublesome — I am Sir, very respectfully your Obedient Servant William Eaton Cap. 4 Inf^y