The Hon^ble Dwight Foster, in Congress Accountants Office April 9^th 1796 Sir In consequence of your request I have caused an examination, to take place of the Muster Rolls of the Massachusetts line, and finds that Ruben Pike enlisted as a private in the 6 Reg^t on the 27^th of January 1777. for the War, and was promoted to Corporal the 1^st of Aug^t 1780, but cannot ascertain the time of his death. The name of Samuel Scammel does not appear on any of the Muster Rolls of the late line of Massachusetts. I am &c W Simmons Acct^r