Autograph letter signed : Mount Joy [PA], to Thomas Wharton, 1778 Apr. 16.

Concerning his need for shirts for his troops; saying that Mr. Donaldson of York has offered his services to supply shirts to the troops and "Could Supply us with three or four Hundred per Week - and that he has Linnen now on hand sufficient to make Six Hundred and that he can procure a large Quantity if properly Impowered and Supplied with cash. The necessitous Situation of our Troops for want of Shirts will Justify any measure and Requires every exertion to procure an Immediate Supply. I therefore wish your Excellency to give Mr. Donaldson Power for that purpose - we shall Certainly want in the Whole 9000 Shirts and 9000 pair of Overalls;" adding that he is enclosing Returns for the two Brigades of Pennsylvania Troops under his Command, " the "sick now in camp Contained in the Returns - have been laid up for want of Clothing - except in a few Instances - there is Scarcely one of them that has a Shirt."