Cap.t Theodore Bliss April 28th 1790 Private 219 XXVI-38 Capt Theo. Bliss New York April 28th 1790 Sir, I duly received your letter of the 20th of last month, and solicitous to serve you, I applied to the Commissioner of Army Accounts, by whom your accounts have been revised, and it appears that there is nothing due to you. Your applying to Congress, I do not think would be of any service to you

• and your friends at Boston can best advixe you upon the propriety of petitioning the Legislature of Massachusetts. I enclose you a copy of the Commissioner of Army Accounts information to me on the State of your Settlement with that Office. [editor’s note: this paragraph has several lines drawn through it, apparently indicating that it was not in the copy that was sent to Bliss.] I am Sir Your Most Obdt. Servt.