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June 19
Brown Book
No. 5
Letter
No. 41
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[Jno Mathews, Nath'l Peabody, In committee of Congress,
Morris Town to Gov. Lee.]
Sir We inclose you a copy of General Washington's letter to us,
of this day.
We have in our former letters dwelt so forcebly on the several
methods contained in the General's letter, that it is now become
almost unnecessary for us to say any thing more on them. But when
we consider the season for operation wears fast away, the small force
we have now in the field, being still fed in a scanty and uncertain
manner the hourly expectation of the fleet and Army of our ally, on
our coast, and that the commander in chief, as well as ourselves, are
as yet totally uninformed, what are to be our expectations on the
subjects of our former letters; Be assured Sir, we feel an anxiety
congenial with his. You will therefore, we are perswaded, pardon
us for being thus Solicitous when we again intreat you, in the most
earnest, in the most urgent manner, to use every exertion in your
power to engage your state, to a speedy and decisive compliance
with our former requisitions. The two points we would wish to im-
press most forcibly on your's and the mimd's of the legislature of
your State, are the immediately forwarding your quota of Troops
necessary to compleat your battalions in the Continental Army and
of supplies of provisions agreeable to the estimate inclosed you in
our letter of the Instant. At the same time we would not wish
you to consider any part of our former requisitions, as become in the
least degree unnecessary, on the contrary, we are more Strongly con-
vinced, that they are already as small as the important objects in
view can possibly admit of. We only mention the two first, as the.
most immediately and indispensibly necessary. For reinforced as
the enemy now are, by the from the reduction of
Charlestown, we momently expect will be made on our
weak and almost resistless Army should this event happen, whilst
in this state, we seriously dread the result.
From the well known indefatigable attention of your State to the
welfare of the United States, we cannot entertain a doubt of its exer-
tions, at this interesting conjuncture. And we most earnestly intreat
you, to give us the earliest information of the final determinations of
your State on the subjects of this and our former letters
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November
14
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[W. Smith, Balt, to His Excellency Thos. S. Lee Esqr.]
I am directed by the committee, for filling out the vessells at this
port, for a cruize against the enemy in this bay, To inform your
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