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

Sir

   Agreeably to your request --

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 -- the amount of each may average about 330 dollars being for depreciation and pay to the 31st Decemr. 1781 [or 1784?] -- from which it is expected they have been settled with by the late Commissioner of army accounts --

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. --

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