[Endorsement on wrapper:] Cushing [undecipherable] of A. Maj. [undecipherable] Reg. [undecipherable] Rec'd from [undecipherable] Sq. 6 Cmit [undecipherable] 2cr. 1 [undecipherable] delivered to [undecipherable] to 1797 [Thomas H. Cushing] S^ir Detroit 1^st August 1797. I have the honor to enclose you a list of [undecipherable] who have been struck from the [Roles] of the troops of the United States at the [late] muster, agreeably to the General order of the 12^th of May, the copy of which is [annexed] on the back of the [list]. It is far from being so accurate as I [could] wish, but the broken and dispersed situation of the companies heretofore has put it out of the power of the Officers to keep regular accounts; and the absence of many Officers with the old Company books and papers [they] were kept [adds] to the difficulty already mentioned. None of the persons included are in this country except one [W.?] John Bennett an infirm old man who could not be removed from Greenvilles — he was supposed to be nearly expiring when the muster was made and was [therefore] struck [off the Roll] without being discharged as in [that] [undecipherable] case the Pay Master of the [1^st] Regiment would have been obliged to make a [move] from the Ohio to Greenville — in the mean [undecipherable] not have been [undecipherable] to the case now stands, if the man lives there will be a partial Muster [strikethrough: ——] of him, and he will [then] be discharged, but the probability is that he will never leave Greenville. — I am Sir your Most Obed Serv.^t The accountant T.H. Cushing Major of the War Department 1^st Reg. & Inspector