Gent[lene]in
I have this day given
directions to the Paymaster General that for the future the Sum of 366
being
the amount of 61 days Stoppages for 240 horses should for the future be
retained
every
Muster out of the Subsistence of the 17th Regiment of Light Dragoons and paid
[sic]
over to you with the usual musterly Stoppages.
I am
Gent[leme]n &c
Mess
Cox & Mair
Barrington
Source: P.P.O., W.0.4/99, #136. Microfilm
Collection of the David Library of the American Revolution. Transcribed by
Gilbert Riddle.