Philadelphia January 18. 1781
Sir,
Your Excellency will receive enclosed a resolve of Congress of the 17th Instant, requesting the Executive of the State of Maryland to liquidate the Account of Mr Baker Johnston for fifty two Pair of Leather Breeches which he purchased for Lt Colo. Lee’s Partizan Corps on Account of the United States.1
I have the Honor to be, with the highest respect, Sir, your most obedt & most hbble Servant,
Saml. Huntington President
Receiver’s copy, Maryland State Papers (Red Books), Maryland Hall of Records Commission, Annapolis. In a clerical hand and signed by Huntington.
1 For the enclosed resolve and the recommendations of the Board of War upon which it was based, See JCC, 19:65 - 66; and PCC, item 147, 6:1 - 11.