[Address leaf: M^r Josiah Fox / at the War office / Philad^a] [Postal notations — upper portion undecipherable] [Docket: M^r Mil^os Pennock / Decem^r 24. 1795 — / requesting information / in regard to M^r Shore's / being discharged — / f —] Norfolk Dec. 24^th 1795 M^r Josiah Fox Dear Sir Being without any of your favors for some time the present reminds you of your promise of the dft. I feel my self Aukardly Situated as to M^r Shore he has never had any Letter mentioning his dismission & M^r Simmonds who is Accountant in the office is writing him in fact that he is Continued I should have thought the proper way would have been for the Sec^y of War to have wrote M^r Shore indeed I consider it Necessary he holding his Appointments from thence I will thank you to let me hear from you immediately on this Subject as neither M^r Shore or my self know how to act I am Yours with esteem Pennock