Head Quarters, Orange Town, August 22, 1780
Dr Sir:
You will be pleased to employ the whole of your Corps1 both Horse and Foot tomorrow in impressing Waggons
and Drivers from Totowa, Prekaness, Little Falls, Slotterdam, Wesel, Acquaquenac and the Neck between Hackensack and Passaic Rivers. You will direct the Waggons to rendezvous as they come in, at Acquaquenac Bridge and Hackensack Town. You will receive further orders the morning after tomorrow, by which time you will be pleased to direct your Corps to Assemble at Hackensack or Acququenac Bridge.2 You will be punctual in the execution of this order, as there will be a correspondent manoeuvre.
I am &c.3
1 Lee’s corps was then at camp, having returned from his station at Brunswick, N.J., in accordance with Washington’s orders (August 18) through Robert Hanson Harrison. The drafts of these orders are in the Washington Papers.
2 Note missing
3 The draft is in the writing of Tench Tilghman.