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[illegible, poss 41 or 111?] W. D. Accountants Office Feby 26th 1794

Sir

   Agreeably to your request line

I inclose a list of all claims for services of Negroes in the Rhode Island line of the late army, at present depending in this office mine the amount of each may average about 330 dollars being for depreciation and pay to the 31st December. 1780 1 or 1784 line from which it is expected they have been settled with by the late commissioner of army. Accounts line

I am Sir &c. Joseph Howell

Oliver Wolcott Esq. Comptroller of the Treasury

    List of all claims for services of Negroes in

the Rhode Island line, at present depending in the accountants office VIZ line

Scipio Brown [or Brawn?] York Champlin Ceaser Updike Richard Cozzins [or Coggins?] Anthony Rose Jack Watson Henry Tabor Fortune Stoddard

and Ceaser Labins -- as appears by letters of Attorney lodged in this Office --

Oliver Wolcott Esq.

[lower right corner] War Department Accountants Office Feby 26. 1794 Joseph Howell