Autograph letter signed : Yorktown, Pennsylvania, to Patrick Henry, 1777 Nov. 28.

Enclosing Minutes and Resolutions of Congress including the Articles for Confederation and an Address from Congress to the States "recommending the immediate consideration of that important plan for Compact;" and "Urging the necessity for Taxation in each State in order to raise five Million Dollars in the Year 1778 for the service of the United States & as one mean for establishing Public Credit; recommending also confiscation & Sale of the Estates of persons who have forfeited the right of protection - & for other purposes - These papers so expressive as they are of the meaning & good veiws [sic] of Congress require no attempt to a more minute detail of their Contents. I have therefore only to repeat the request of Congress that you will be pleased to take the earliest opportunity of laying them before the Legislature in your States;" adding, in a postscript that he is also including Minutes from the Journal of Congress for November 25, "requesting the appointment of a proper Guard over the Continental frigate building in Virginia" and November 26, "Recommending the Re-enlistment of the first nine Regiments of Virginia Troops."