Lee Letter: n688




<br /> Lee Letter: n688

Washington and Lee University

Sender: Maryland Delegates
Recipient: Thomas Sim Lee

Philadelphia March 12th. 1782.

Sir,

We are this day honored with yours of the 5th Instant inclosing a Copy of
yours to the President of the 28th Ulto. the original of which was
referred to the Secretary of War.1

We are informed by the Assistant2 that he has
informed your Excellency and the Council of what can at present be
done. We Shall do everything in our power to obtain what our State
requires.

We have the honor to be with great respect, yr. Excellency’s Mo. Obt.
Servts.

John Hanson
Danl. Carroll

Notes:

Transcription, Ridgely Transcripts, Maryland Hall of Records Commission,
Annapolis.

1 For Lee’s January 28 letter to Congress, in which he requested “twenty five
hundred suits for our Line” and “3000 Stand of Arms,” and his March 5
letter to the delegates, see Md. Archives, 48:59 – 60, 92. His letter
of January 28 was read and referred to Secretary Benjamin Lincoln on
February 11. See PCC, item 185, 3:15, item 186, fol. 12.

2 That is, assistant secretary at war Matthew Clarkson.