Head Quarters, Morris Town, May 20, 1780
Dear Sir:
You will be pleased to halt your Horse and Foot ’till further orders, wherever they may be when this reaches you. Should the Horse be in Philada. and it should be found difficult to subsist them there, you will consult the Board of War and remove them to any place which may be found more convenient in the neighbourhood. A very few days will probably determine whether you are to proceed further just now.
I am &c.1
1 The draft is in the writing of Tench Tilghman.