[Docket: AL No. 1 / New York March 1800 / Wm Torrey] [Addressed: James M Henry Esq / Secretary of War / Philadelphia] [FREE] [Postmark: NEW YORK / MAR 15] [for] New York [March 1800] Agreeable to an Act of the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled of the 7 April [17—]. I enclose you a Certificate respecting my title to Lands as a Canadian Refugee — claiming under the resolutions of Congress of the 23 April 1783 and 13^th April 1785 — I only add that my lucrative prospects were promising — the Retreat from Canada put an end to them — and that those whom I expected would help me at a future period were nearly ruined from the same cause. I am very respectfully — Sir, your Obedient & humble [ser] William Torrey To James Mc Henry Esq: Secretary of War.