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[Vertically on left margin] Memorandum of Lt Col Francis Murray deceased [obscured]
Col Murray taken Prisoner1 Feb.78. Exchanged^as a Major Feb. 25. 80-
The [undecipherable] at War informs^me that he was left out of the
arrangement of the Line in 1779 -
A Resolve of JanY 1.1781 - the Col claims under, which
says^it is the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] that those officers who have been exchanged^since the last arrang. or are
in captivity ought to be arranged^that he was exchanged since
this arrangement,^& that being by this Resolve liable to be arranged
he is of [undecipherable] entitled to [undecipherable] [undecipherable]of those [undecipherable]then omitted
a Resolve of May 22d 1779 says that all officers who are or
may be exchanged & not constituted in service be after
such exchange considered as supernumerary officers
and entitled to the years pay.
May 26. 1781- a Resolve says that the above mentioned
year pay should be in the New[undecipherable]-
Feb.Y 11. 1786 Resolves that the officer who have
been Prisoner, with the [undecipherable] and deranged are
entitled to the one years pay-
It does not appear that Col Murray has ever been
annexed to the Line after his derangement.
in [undecipherable] or [undecipherable] that.
Col Murray has produced a return to the War
Office^from Genl St. Clair with [undecipherable], which he says was deliver
in^to that office in 1781 - ^entitled a list of the Prisoners who were released from
captivity after the arrangement of 1780 and which
[undecipherable] Genl says are to be considered as relieving officers
and instill to half pay. in which is indicated Col
Francis Murray as a Lt. Col from Apl 17. 1780.
Col Murray urges that he is in the same situ-
ation as Capt. Rob. [undecipherable], who has received
his [undecipherable][undecipherable].
he also says that
If Col Murray was actually deranged in 1779, it is
my opinion that he comes under the Resolves of
May 22d 1779 & May 26.1781- which entitles him to a