[draft] my dear Harry Boston May 31. 1787 - I wrote you on the 27th Ins.t & then informed you of the situation of the two companies of Artillery for the want of cash to pay them a [half months] pay previous to their marching which was promised them at the time of their Inlistment - The General court sometime since voted a sum not exceeding five thousand pounds in addition to two thousand five hundred pounds for the use of the Federal Troops & directed the Governor & Council to grant their warrants from time to time if this thought expedient - on the strength of this, and assurances from the Gov.r & Council that they would grant warrants to the full amount, I have made myself personally answerable for the whole of the Cloathing and all the supplies to the Troops, & since the Troops have been disbanded [2] been disbanded this will hold from me £3,500 of the sum voted by the Court. & will not grant me any more warrants, altho my expenditures have been upwards of ?7,000 Lmy - and they give me as a Reason for their conduct that Congress will not allow this State in the Federal Account for the monies they have already suppl'd me with - I therefore wish your influence with the Treasury board on this subject - I cannot obtain one farthing from Mr. Appleton on the orders from the Treasury Board, as he has not one shilling in his office & cannot give me the least encouragement when he shall - I have paid some of my officers their subsistence with orders in Collectors which they have been obliged to sell at 30 pr. ct. discount this damnable, and I shall be ruind if I must receive this pay for all the supplies. I have made my [3] myself answerable for - I inclose a paper of this day by which you will observe a Return of the Senate & House as Chosen by the People - Benj.a Austin Junr. (the Repeated author of Honesties) was this day Chosen a Senator of this County, he and our friend Thos. Dawes Esqr were the Candidates - this esteem a Respectable committee of both Houses waited on the Hon:ble John Hancock Esqr & informd him he was Chosen Govr of this Commonwealth - he replyd to them if his health would permit (he has a touch of the gout) he wou'd wait on the General Court sometime tomorrow before noon - the L:t Gov.r is not Choosen [sic] by the people, & tomorrow at ten OC is assigned for the choice -Mr. Cushing and our friend Lincoln will be sent up from the House to the Senate - Mr. Dalloway is here from [4] from the Eastward, he gives a miserable account of things in that quarter, and the situation of the Fort [Farm] in particular. Your friends here are all well and desire their Love to you & Lucy I am your affectionate friend H Jackson [docket] Genl Jackson 31 May 1787