Sir,

Agreeable to His Excellency’s Commands of yesterday I have the Honor to inclose a Return of the Officers &c. of my Department, and must at the same time request you will assure him that I shall pay due obedience to his order respecting the appointments none of which were made here until I had applied to him, & understood they were approved, as it was never my intention to entertain any additionals without Authority

Lt. Peter JOHNSON was recommended by me last Autumn to be a Capt. As will appear from my Return then made, which I understood was agreeable to His Excellency; NILLES was formerly a Serviceable Officer in the Department, who had fled to me, and was approved on my recommendation & LANGAN whom I had usefully employed to the Northward, was recommended in like manner.

These two are the only additionals. The few Rangers I engaged with the Generals Approbation, as I could have done many more but that I was unwilling to encrease Expences till they could be more usefully employed;

Officers are not to be had at an Exigence, and I am persuaded I have not too many, as will appear when the Indians can meet, an Event I so much wish for, and to which end they shall be employed as occasion requires in the way most conducive.

I hope to be honored with his Excellency’s Commands respecting the Indian Presents or any other matters that occur to which I shall pay the utmost deferrince and I have the Honor to be,

Sir,
Your most obedient servant
(signed)   G. JOHNSON

Robert MACKENZIE Esqr.

Great Britain, Public Record Office, Headquarters Papers of the British Army in America, PRO 30/55/505.

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