From George Washington to the Continental Congress Executive Committee, 13 February 1777
To the Continental Congress Executive Committee
Morristown, 13 February 1777. Requests the executive committee to give $4,000 to Lt. Col. David Brearley of the 4th New Jersey Regiment so that Brearley can “pay off the Bounty & Subsistance of a Number of Recruits in the lower part of Jersey.”
Df, in George Johnston’s writing, DLC:GW; Varick transcript, DLC:GW.