Autograph letter signed : "Head quarters, high hills Santee" [S.C.], to Col. [William R.] Davie, 1781 Oct. 18.

Informing him of want of salt: "I shall only observe that an Army which has receivd no pay for more than two years[,] distressed for want of cloath, subsisted without spirits and often short in the usual allowances of meat and bread will mutiny if we fail in the article of salt; and besides if they were ever so well disposed under the misfortune it would soon produce such a variety of diseases and complaints that the greater part would soon be transfered from the field to the hospital"; telling him that he is their only source for supplies, and asking him to obtain salt for them.