Department of War Office March 3[1], 179[5] Sir The Treasurer has [remitted?] [to] John Chester Esq. to be transmitted to you the Sum of [One Hundred] Eighty seven [undecipherable] Dollars [and] Seven Cents. being the pay of [undecipherable: probable reading "Ensign"] Peter Frothingham, [and] the [recruit/recruits?] under your command to the 28 of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for which [undecipherable] account for the disbursement thereof [agreeably?] to the enclosed Receipt[s] &c. [oval notation: 187 7[cts?]] I am Sir your ob[edien]t [Servan]t J. Howell Cap^t Rupert [undecipherable: Bispell?] Middletown Connecticut [Address panel: March 31, 179[5] / Cap^t Rupert [undecipherable: Bispell?] / Middletown / Connecticut / [undecipherable notations below]]