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monies transmitted should have been paid to yourself and as the channel through which it passed was your own choice I conceived it would have been so, the sum now forwarded will rest in W. Dunhams hands until an application is made by yourself or by your special order. This remittance with that of the 20th August which you have received make the amount of one hundred and twenty dollars as mentioned in my letter of 22 July and it completes the whole amounts possibly to be advanced, you will therefore be governed accordingly as you are afaired[?] that any deviation can not take place- Your request to know when the three years will expire from the time Capt. Pike accepted his appointment, it appears he entered the present service on the 19th March 179[?] there is no limitation of service prescribed to the officers of the army nor is there any obligation by law for their continuing longer than their own pleasure- but congress hold the power of disbanding or diminishing the army at any time when their service is no longer necessary.

Madam

Mrs. Isabel Pike [?] Joseph Tucker near Bridgetown, New Jersey

[?] Joseph Howell