[In letter of the Honorable Subscriber most Humbly Sheweth That whereas we were promised the remaining part our Bounty as soon as we joined the Regt. which has not taken place according to the promise and as our your petitioners have been drafted out of Capt. Tompkins Company in 2 Batt. Capt. & Monitors of the 4^th and being Sensible that Capt. Morris is not accountable to us for any bounty Money, the therefore most Humbly has your Honour to give Directions that may Effect a Settlement with your Petitioners for the following Sums of Bounty due to us and your Petitioners as in Duty bound will ever Pray — Joh. Lindell 4 Dollars Andrew Simon 9 — 75 Cents [undecipherable] Merchants 7 — 75 cts Abraham Lykes 5 — — The Honourable Col. Rochfontain Commandant Nat. & E. M^r Freeman, Pay Master of the Corps of Art^y & Engineers will charge the M. S. in the most favourable [strikethrough: Col. —] with the Sums represented to be due to the four above Signed Soldiers, & the accountant will keep Paidsums to their Credit if after investigation of Capt. Thompson's, they are found to be really due to them — West]