BY BRIGADIER GENERAL JAMES WILKINSON, Commanding the Army of the United States of America. Samuel Burchard a Corporal of Captain Francis Kinlock Huger's Company, in the Second Regiment of Artillery & Engineers having served Two years ten months and lost his right arm in the public service which renders him incapable of performing the duties of a soldier and entitles him to a pension from Government is hereby discharged. He has been paid, clothed, and subsisted, conformably to law, as appears by his receipt indorsed. To prevent imposition, the following description of the said Samuel Burchard is annexed. He is twenty three years of age; Five feet nine inches high; has a dark complexion; brown hair; blue eyes; was born in the New Castle County in the State of Delaware and is, by occupation, a Farmer. GIVEN at Head-Quarters, on the Twentieth day of June in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and One . . . . and of the Independence of the United States of America, the Twenty fifth. [seal] Registered. [Signed] T.H. Cushing Major & Inspr [Signed] Ja: Wilkinson True Copy from the original. Attest. [undecipherable] [Left margin, written sideways, partially legible:] [I do hereby certify] to have received [undecipherable] conformably [undecipherable] Corporal [undecipherable] [Signed] Samuel Burchard [Left margin stamp, vertical:] [BRIGADIER GENERAL JAMES WILKINSON / 2^d Reg^t / A[rtillery] & E[ngineers] / ARMY [undecipherable]] City of Washington December 24^th 1801. Received of Lieu^t [undecipherable]omcraft [undecipherable] to 2^d Reg^t A[rtillery] & Eng[ineers] eighteen dollars and fifty one Cents, in full of my pay to the 10^th of May 1801, the date of my discharge, and I do acknowledge to have received my clothing and Subsistence to the same time. Signed duplicates. [Signed] Samuel Burchard Attest. [undecipherable] Received December 14, 1801 of Lieu^t [undecipherable]omcraft [undecipherable] to [2^d] Reg^t A[rtillery] & E[ngineers] the sum of seven dollars being arrear pay as Corporal from 21 May 1801 to 10 Jun[e] 1801. [he having been] discharged and [undecipherable] on the 20 May 1801. as above specified; Signed duplicates. [Signed] Samuel Burchard Attest. [undecipherable]