Head Quarters, Morristown, January 24, 1780
Sir:
I have been honored with your Excellency’s letter of Deer. 26th. and its inclosure.1 The immediate attention of government to the distress of the army, and the effectual assistance promised from the operation of the act, cannot but claim the acknowledgements of every good citizen. I flatter myself from your exertions, and those of the other States from which we derive our supplies, that we shall not again experience a like evil.
I have the honor &c.2
[MD.H.S.]
1 Governor Lee’s letter is in the Washington Papers, but the act of the Maryland Legislature is not found.
2 In the writing of lames McHenry.