Yours dated June 6th. Came Safe to hand togeather With Instructions for the Recruiting business, Which Shall be punctually Obay’d.

Previous to yours I receivd. Orders from Major Hoops to join My Company in Alexandria, and Since yours I have recd. instructions from the Secretary of War in Closing a Sett of recruitg. instructions for the Recruiting business but Sir it Will be impossible for me to recruit Many Men under those ristrictions, However Sir, I shall use every possible Means in my power to recruit as many as possible

I Wrote to the Secretary of War in respect to a young Gentleman by the name of Jno. Grange Who entered With Me in the Month of April Last, as a, Cadet, & he has by his last referd me to the instructions, & from them he is to be recommended to the Commander in Chief, the Inspector general &c. I therefore beg that I may be permitd. to recommend him to you, as a gentleman, & one, ⟨—⟩ of the best famelies in this place, he is a young man of Good moral Principals five feet 7 1/2 Inches in Highth and about the age of twenty two. he is a young man of as much honor as may be met With, I have furnished him With Cloathing; I Should not have done Ither; but the advice of Major G. J. McKee I Was guided by.

I have the Honor to be Sir Your Obt. Hble. Servt.