[Edw^d A Miller No [undecipherable] of July [undecipherable] to 3[undecipherable] 97] Middletown July 5 1797— Sir I have received your letter of 21 & 23 Ultimo, & enclose you the Muster & Pay Rolls of myself and Recruits, at this Rendezvous for the Month of June 1797. The Pay Roll amounting to Sixty Eight Dollars & also a Deficiency in the Chest [undecipherable] amounting to four dollars. Joseph Blooms Receipt for four Dollars, Stephen Bush Receipt for four Dollars the two last I have omitted forwarding in my letter of the 5 Ultimo. M^r [undecipherable] Bailey has Charged [undecipherable] John Harris [undecipherable] Clerk to Col. Sam Hodgdon to be his faithful Attorney, to transact the business concerning his Bounty Land. Jabez Atkins lives at a distance from this place has not been [undecipherable]-tions but will be here in a Short time. I have Inlisted a Man by the Name of William Nesbit, he is a Man about five feet ten Inches in Hight with built short dark hair, dark Eyes, fair Complextion thirty two Years of Age. Born in England has been a Resident in this Country for about five Years has lived sometime within about one Mile of this place, I would thank you to Inform within you have any such Man on your Books. I am Sir your Obedient Humble Serv^t Edward Miller Cap^t [William Simmons Esq^r Ass^t War Department]