Newark Aug 27. 179[undecipherable] (50) Sir [undecipherable] you will have observ'd in th[e undecipherable] I transmitted you the name of Mr Jacob [undecipherable: Siles] as [undecipherable] for a Majority. I understood him that he would accept it. But he now tells me he will take nothing less than a Regiment. This Seems too much to begin with, of a competent person who has [undecipherable] been form'd. Mr. Abijah Hammond who was [undecipherable] of the N[undecipherable] Regiments during the war [undecipherable] not [undecipherable] it would accept a Regiment[.] [I] do not know his character as an Officer. But from his present condition or [undecipherable], being a man of low fortune before character, [undecipherable] his [undecipherable] as a man of good understanding & of [undecipherable]. I conclude that he would make a respectable [undecipherable] of a Regiment. I would be [undecipherable] — Walker is to be preferr'd if he [undecipherable] accept. But the Presidents [undecipherable: Sanction] may be [undecipherable: obtained] in the alternative, for [underline: Walker] if he will accept, for [underline: Hammond] if Walker declines. In the [undecipherable: event] of Walker's declining, the place of [undecipherable] Major may be [undecipherable: propos'd] to Hammond, which however I [undecipherable] he would not accept. In that case B. Fowler must be thought[undecipherable] accept[undecipherable]. M[r]. [undecipherable] Morton offers as [undecipherable] in a company; [undecipherable] Gentleman has had a [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] his [undecipherable] has been in the Militia, a [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] character — the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Inclos'd is an [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to tell you [undecipherable]; but at no [undecipherable] [undecipherable] among [undecipherable] [Endorsement:] The Secretary of [undecipherable: War] Aug 27. 179[undecipherable] from [undecipherable] General [undecipherable]