Head Quarters, July 5, 1779
Dear Sir:
Your letter of yesterday I recd. this day and have only to thank you for it and its inclosure; except that I wish you to pay the strictest attention to the movements of the enemy below, lest they may undertake an excursion into the Jersey, by the way of Tappan or elsewhere; of this should it take place, I must request the earliest information; it may be well in order to accomplish this knowledge to employ country people for the purpose.
I am, etc.1
1 The draft is in the writing of Richard Kidder Meade.