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wish you would assist him to the cash he wants, and to 

 take some effectual method to clothe the troops in the best, 

 speediest, and neatest manner possible. Lest you should 

 be under a deception with regard to the mode in which 

 the clothing in the hands of the Clothier general is dis- 

 tributed, I am to inform you that they are delivered in 

 proportion to their wants (or in plain English) to the 

 number of men in each regiment throughout the army. 



Judge how far inadequate our proportion must be to 

 our wants, whilst the troops from other states have an 

 equal dividend in addition to their other supplies. 



At this inclement season, one third of our troops are 

 totally destitute of either shoes, stockings, shirts or 

 blankets,* so that unless they receive an immediate 

 supply of those necessary articles, sickness, death and 

 desertion will be the inevitable consequence. 



I am your excellency's most ob't humble serv't, 



Ant'y Wayne, B. G. 



I have directed Mr. Zantzinger to call on you for 

 money. I wish you to order the clothier general to esti- 

 mate the price of the clothing, which, agreeable to a 

 resolve of Congress is to be in proportion to the pay of 

 the officers and men — the states to bo at the loss of the 

 surplus. A. W. . 



To his excellency , Thomas Wharton, Esq., President 

 of Pennsylvania, Lancaster. 



Camp Mountjoy, February, 1778. 

 Dear sir : — Enclosed is a list of the officers sent on the 



' *1777, 2d May, Bartram Galbraith, James Crawford, Adam 

 Ordt, Robert Thompson, Joshua Elder, Christopher Crawford, 

 William Atlee, John Hubley, Alexander Lowry, Curtis Grubb, 

 Philip Marstcller, Matthias Slough and Adam Reigart, were 

 appointed by the war-office, to supply the army with blankets, 

 ice. for Lancaster county, Pa. 



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