Autograph letter signed : "Head quarters, high hills Santee" [S.C.], to Governor Thomas Lee, 1781 Aug. 21.

Sending him a return "of the state of his line" to emphasize "the necessity of increasing the ranks"; writing that "the State of our finance is undoubtedly embarrassing to Government, and the greater the difficulties, the bolder the politicks should be"; arguing, "if money and patriotism fail us, we must substitute personal services and severe laws, to supply the want of one and the decay of the other"; pointing out that "the states have a great and sure resource for the support of the War in the plan of drafting the Citizens for the service"; asking him to send a detachment of Maryland troops as soon as possible; mentioning Lord Cornwallis and his movements in Virginia; commenting on the British presence in South Carolina and Georgia.