August 1, 1779.
Dr. Sr: I return you my thanks for the intelligence contained in your letter of this date and shall be obliged to you, to communicate any thing further that may come to your knowledge, especially if it should be of importance.
I have not the least objection to your employing the corporal and six men as you propose.
If Mr. Pomroy 49 has accepted the appointment you mention he cannot hold his rank in the line, but must be considered as discharged from the service. He ought first however to pro duce proper certificates of his having settled his Public accounts in the Regt. I am, etc. 50
[Note:Lieut. Ralph Pomeroy, of the Third Connecticut Regiment. He was auditor for settling the pay and clothing deficiency, and deputy quartermaster for Connecticut. ]
[Note:The draft is in the writing of Richard Kidder Meade. ]