To George Washington from William Livingston, 22 February 1780

From William Livingston

Trenton [N.J.] 22d February 1780

Dear Sir

I am desired by a joint Resolve of both the Branches of the Legislature to write to your Excellency by Express requesting you to transmit to me for the use of the Legislature accurate Returns of the Troops now in the Service belonging or credited to the Quota of this State agreeably to the several Resolutions of Congress of the 15th of March last, & of the ninth ⟨da⟩y of February instant, that Measures may be taken to ⟨co⟩mpleat the Quota of Troops of this State.1 I have the honour to be with the greatest Esteem & Respect Dr Sir your Excellency’s most humble & most obedient Servant

Wil: Livingston

ALS, DLC:GW; ADf, NN: William Livingston Papers, Letterbook. The text in angle brackets, where the ALS is mutilated, is taken from the draft.

1. For the resolution of the New Jersey Assembly, passed on this date, and the concurrence of the legislative council, see N.J. Gen. Assembly Proc., 16 Feb.–21 March 1780 description begins Votes and Proceedings of the General Assembly of the State of New-Jersey, At a Session begun at Trenton on the 26th Day of October, 1779, and continued by Adjournments. Being the second Sitting of the fourth Assembly. Trenton, 1780. description ends , 119, and N.J. Council Proc., 16 Feb.–21 March 1780 description begins A Journal of the Proceedings of the Legislative-Council of the State of New-Jersey, In General Assembly convened at Trenton, on Wednesday the sixteenth Day of February, in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty. Being the second Sitting of the fourth Session. Trenton, 1780. description ends , 50–51.

For the congressional resolution of 15 March 1779 apportioning military units to the states from which they had originally been raised, see JCC, description begins Worthington Chauncey Ford et al., eds. Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789. 34 vols. Washington, D.C., 1904–37. description ends 13:316–18. For Congress’s resolution of 9 Feb., see Samuel Huntington to GW, 10 Feb., and n.1 to that document; see also Circular to the States, 20 February.

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Title: To George Washington from William Livingston, 22 February 1780
Author: Livingston, William
Recipient: Washington, George
Date: 22 February 1780

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Cite as: “To George Washington from William Livingston, 22 February 1780,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-24-02-0439. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 24, 1 January–9 March 1780, ed. Benjamin L. Huggins. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, p. 547.]

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