1 This officer procur’d Your Excellency’s Permission to go on Furlough the 21st of Septemr for five Weeks on his Positively promising, and Pledging his Honor, that during the Course of that time He would resign his Commission, 2 this promise he has
I observe in your Excellencys Circular letter to the General and Field officers of the Pensylvania Line, Your Excellency remarks, that Captain Ashmead (who has long been return’d Absent without leave should either be Superceded or Order’d for Tryal. I beg leave to Inform your Excellency, that the Number of Deserters from my Regiment, and who are now in Pensylvania is very Great That I am of opinion should your Excellency think proper to permit my Sending two officers who are well acquainted with the Country after them, many might be secur’d and brought to Camp, those officers can be Spar’d from my Regiment, as I shall afterwards have one to each Company.