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Col Murray [undecipherable] [undecipherable]¹ Feb.78. Discharged ^{as a Major} [undecipherable]. 25. 80
The [undecipherable] at War informs^^me that he was left out of the arrangement of the [undecipherable] in 1779 - A Resolve of JanY 1.1781 - the Col claims under, which says^^{it is the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable]} that [undecipherable] officers who have been exchanged^^{since the last arrang.} or are in captivity ought to be arranged^^that he was exchanged [undecipherable] this arrangement that being by this [undecipherable] liable to be arranged a [undecipherable] of May 22 1779 says that all officers who are or may be exchanged considered as supernumerary officers and entitled to the years pay. May 26. 1781- a Resolves says that the above mentioned year pay should be in the [undecipherable] [undecipherable]- Feb.Y 11 1786 Resolves that this officer who [undecipherable] 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 [undecipherable], which he says was deliver in^to that office in 1781 - ^[undecipherable] of the Prisoners who were released from captivity after the arrangement of 1780 and which [undecipherable] [undecipherable] says are to be considered as [undecipherable] officers and instill to half [undecipherable] in which is indicated Col Francis Murray [undecipherable] as a Lt. Col from Apl 17 1780. Col Murray urges that he is in the same situ- ation as Capt. [undecipherable] [undecipherable], who has [undecipherable] 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 & May 26.1781- which entitles him to a}