Offe. of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] May 30^th Sir I have received and perused the contents of your letter of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] I am of opinion that it is necessary for you personally to apply either to the Secretary at War or Congress for the confirmation of your rank and your continuance in the Service, before I can be justified in making a full settlement of your accounts. The Commission you enclosed was a regiment which was as dissolved [within] the second year for which it was raised — and your not being continued in another regiment and your acceptance of the [undecipherable] appointments, most probably will be construed as a supersedeas of this Commission. A Resolution of Congress of June 5. 1786 has declared that aid de Camps have the rank of Majors, and a resolution of Feb 21. 1780 has directed that Commissions be issued to them in Service — whether the [undecipherable] grants [undecipherable] the more [undecipherable] [undecipherable] instruments as that of the latter, and whether [undecipherable] the General family [undecipherable] with you to the [undecipherable] of an aid de Camp in Service on the 20 of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] you in Office in the line of the Army [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to be determined. It is necessary to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] had received had his full [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of aids after you left him, and that Lieutenant [undecipherable] [undecipherable] tells [undecipherable] you appears to had [undecipherable] [undecipherable] you had left your former line of duty, which may have continued without the expectation of returning to it. [Docket notation, left margin:] May 28 [undecipherable] [Address notation:] Miss Blodget at Bennington. [Archival index card:] Investigation of the names on this record shows them as of Reg[imen]t [undecipherable] Major Wm Blodget, adc — to [N.] Greene — Copies of letters of P.H.Gl. rel. to [undecipherable] Cases — Heitman Record — See General Index Military Cards