Dear Sir

Mr. Morris has been so good as take the trouble of delivering to you a standard, which I beg you will present to the troop in my name, as a mark of the esteem I entertain for the members composing it.  In the usual course of promotion I was appointed last winter to the command of the Troop; but the distance of my residence from the usual place of meeting and from the body of theTroopers will reorder it inconvenient for me to attend as frequently as I could wish, and I therefore intend next winter to resign my commission.


I am 
Dear Sir
Your most obed. 
humble serv.
J. Johnson 

Mr. Parrish
Canadaugua

John Johnson Letter