[Outer address/wrapper page] [undecipherable text in upper section] [To [undecipherable] Major [undecipherable]] [undecipherable] [Lieut [undecipherable]] Sir After your report in any manner'd now in your Office you'll be claim'd that the size of Fort [undecipherable] that my Regiment Consisted only of about 294 Men, who on that Day were [undecipherable] to be the better [undecipherable] put [undecipherable] Demand'd, and in this action 22 Officers and Soldiers of my Regiment were kill'd or wounded, including myself only having a late [undecipherable] one of my legs, which fractured the Bone, and [undecipherable] Depriv'd me of [it] altogether [undecipherable] during [undecipherable] a farm [undecipherable] several pieces of the Bone Came away, and to [preserve?] the of my limb was very Doubtful, the Evening by [these?] [undecipherable] and by the means of Gordon [undecipherable] [undecipherable] had [undecipherable] of the more kill and wounded by my Regiment to After I am [undecipherable] [lying?] in bottom Creek where [undecipherable] [strikethrough: [undecipherable]] Eight some time and [listed?] with Camp [undecipherable] on installing for land [undecipherable] offer and to [undecipherable] sent to [ninety?] three where [through?] the months of 776, 777 [undecipherable] guard in [undecipherable] old [undecipherable] Building, and a number of the wounded Officers on the [undecipherable] 777 [undecipherable] to leave from here [undecipherable] until the fall of this same year, where [undecipherable] have Taken [undecipherable] and the whole of the [undecipherable] put [undecipherable] Board [undecipherable] Friendship [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [toward?] myself [undecipherable] to Company with Col. Livingston of [Henryport?] and [undecipherable] John Stuart of the Maryland lines, [undecipherable] I died at Hospital [undecipherable] of my life or a Surgeon at last, as soon as I got Clear of the [Extreme?] [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] with the Highest [undecipherable] Experience of joining the Army; but low was I Disappointed when [applied?] I could not Take [undecipherable] in the line of the army, I was then ordered to Fort [Edward?] to take the charge of a number of prisoners, and to march to [undecipherable] of Rendezvous to collect such of my men as had been [Exchanged?], and to [undecipherable] [keep?] [Others?] to fill up my Regiment. [This?] [business?] [undecipherable] presented with the greatest [undecipherable] for upwards of twelve Months upon finding all my Endeavours found [in?] [sufficient?] to raise money enough to give me a Command, and [Despairing?] [being?] [undecipherable] a [undecipherable] Brothers to my Country, when I had no longer in my power to [render?] it a [undecipherable] Service I thought [proper?] to resign my Commission and I did in June 1779 as in [form?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable: (Leaving my Captivity?)] that a Considerable sum of hand [undecipherable] and my French [undecipherable] kept up and sent me [undecipherable] my best Exchange [undecipherable] Now [undecipherable] when I reflect, that my Country [obliged?] me to leave the army and that was not art of mine; Deserted as I was by being [undecipherable] Rejected, when I was [bold?] by the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] Maryland in the fall of 1781 to [furnish?] a number of [undecipherable] Cattle for our army there as [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] immediately Come forward and in a very short Time brought up one hundred head and sent them on together with a quantity of flour, I cannot But [flatter?] myself I am Entitled to some [undecipherable] from my Country for past Services as a Soldier And am well [undecipherable] these [undecipherable] a [undecipherable] before you in all its Circumstances, Remind to mine [undecipherable] for being any [undecipherable] more Hardships for a less reward, and who [undecipherable] Whole has met with such [undecipherable] Commission [undecipherable] neglect and [Altercation?] [undecipherable] perhaps you [undecipherable] think it your Duty to report an [undecipherable] to Congress [undecipherable] to my Claim, upon which that Body will have to decide, [undecipherable] and from your [undecipherable] Authority [undecipherable] may be Enabled to Authenticate the grounds of my Claim, I have to beg the favor of you that you will State particularly and distinctly all the Facts I shall prove to you. I conceive that whether my Application is [undecipherable] Unsuccessful or not [undecipherable] your report will be at least an honorable Testimony of the Services which I have [Honoured?] my Country, and whether your report Operates in my favor or against me I shall be happy at all times to say that [undecipherable] The [undecipherable] to be [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [Honorable?] most [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [MS 1399]