My dear friend
I have but a moment to thank you for your late letters, & to inform you that I think there is crude Sal Ammoniac among my medicines. This I am
pretty certain of but if I shou’d be mistaken, make them send to Chantilly where my bror. says there is plenty. We are all here in
confusion, short inlistments has allmost ruined us. Our Army having disbanded before a new one was raised, has enabled Genl. Howe to make
considerable progress this way. If the weather dont stop him I hardly think the people will. There is little spirit & [Â…] Virtue
among them in these middle Colonies. Remember me to all friends. Adieu my Friend.
NOTES:
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Receiver’s copy, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. Addressed:
“To Doctor Walter Jones, Richmond County, Virginia.”