1To George Washington from Patrick Henry, 8 April 1778 (Washington Papers)
The enclosed memorandum has not been identified, but the nature of this shipment is suggested by the journal of the Virginia council of state for 7 April. “The Board being credibly informed that his Excellency General Washington has been unsupplied for some time past with many articles of Living which Custom & the great fatigues to which he is constantly exposed must make...