Autograph letter signed : Williamsburg, to General Greene, 1781 Oct. 7.

Reporting on the disposition of supplies arriving by ship in Connecticut; expressing his "sincere pleasure from Your laurels, But when I reflect on your Situation on Your want of every thing but the reverences of your men I am not without fears that Your Successes may not continue. Yet I think you must be reinforced from hence if we succeed and why shall we not. By Sea we are Strong by Land we are the Same & have every thing. You suceed without any thing but bravery and Millitary knowledge. Surely we must not fail;" saying he is "buried in business in the French Army, and have little time to observe how things pass. This State (Virginia) seems to me to have the least knowledge of government of any one a Strange Indolent set of Mortals too rich to be industrious or so dam'd poor that life a[i]nt worth their care;" saying he has just come from "head Quarters near York When I read the Copy of Your letters to Congress since your Action at the Yewtaw Springs. I rejoyce greatly at your Sucess & lament the loss of so many brave men."