From George Washington to James Watson, 1 May 1780
To James Watson
Head Quarters Morris Town 1st May 1780
Sir
I have recd your favr of the 24th ulto informing me of your being appointed by the State of Connecticut to purchase the quota of Rum and Hay required by Congress, and desiring to be made acquainted with the places of deposit—I have already, in conformity to the tenor of the Resolve, pointed out to His Excellency Governor Trumbull the different places at which the several Articles required are to be deposited, and which I make no doubt he will communicate to you1—but lest some delay may attend his dispatches, you will be pleased to observe that the following are the places of deposit for the Rum and Hay in the proportions affixed to each.2 I am &.
Df, in Tench Tilghman’s writing, DLC:GW; Varick transcript, DLC:GW.
1. See GW’s circular to the states, 26 March, and the source note and n.2 to that document.
2. At this place on the draft, Tilghman presented a table designating 10,000 gallons of rum and 200 tons of hay at both Danbury and Hartford; 48,558 gallons of rum at New Fairfield; and 100 tons of hay at Waterbury, for totals of 68,558 gallons of rum and 500 tons of hay.