And your memorialist further shows, that in the Spring of the year 1780, your memorialist left the service as a Hofse Guide, having been appointed a Lieutenant in a Regiment raised under the authority of the government, of this State, and commanded by Morris Graham,

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Esq., now deceased ; that your memoralist continued to do duty in th • Regt. for six months, the period of time for which it was raised ; that during such time the Regt. was engaged in the campaign of that year on the Mohawk river.

And your memorialist further shows, that at the end of that campaign he again entered the service as a Horse Guard, and continued to do duty in that capacity until the close of the war, with the exception of about two months of the last part of the war, when he was absent on furlough, by permission of the officer of the lines.

And your memorialist further shows, that his commission as Lieutenant, and also tire certificates showing his having entered the service as a Horse Guard, and stating the nature of such service, havebeen lost or destroyed; and your memorialist therefore respectfidh refers to the accompanying document, which he trusts will satisfactorily show that the statements made by him in relation to the periods and nature of the service performed by him, for his country are correct : and he also trusts that it will appear from thtse documents, that at times when the country needed the services of all of its citizens, he embarked with zeal in the cause of his country.