Written by a Committee appointed "by the Officers of the Massachusetts line of the late army to attend to and prosecute their memorial to the Congress of the United States, on the subject of compensation for the losses sustained by them and the soldiers who served during the war ... " States that they have yet to receive anything for their services from the government and will continue to petition "until we obtain consideration and relief; or until it shall be declared by the voice of the United States in Congress, that our claims are visionary and without foundation; and that a hard-earned bona fide debt can be honourably and justly cancelled by certificates received in the first instance by a kind of compulsion, alienated in most cases from necessity, unsupported by funds, and passing in exchange for only a sixth or an eight of their nominal value." Sends an agent, General William Hull, to Congress in Philadelphia to plead their case. Noted as a circular. With clerical signatures of Heath, J. Brooks, T. Edwards, H. Jackson, W. Eustis, and Jo. Crocker. Signatures appear to be written by the same hand directed to Henry Knox. Watermarked with a hunting horn inside a crest.