To George Washington from Brigadier General Anthony Wayne, 10 November 1779
From Brigadier General Anthony Wayne
Acquakeneunk Bridge [N.J.] 10th Novr 1779
Dear General
If not Inconsistant, I should esteem it as a particular favor if your Excellency would permit Major Moore to join my family during the remainder of the Campaign—or until Mr Archer recovers from his late accident.1
I also beg leave to mention that Lieut. Colo. Fleury’s absence2 has made a Vacency in Colo. Febigers Regt a Lieut. Colo. is also wanting in Colo. Meigs’s—& should Major Hull proceed to Boston on the buisness he is appointed to3—a Major will be wanted for Colo. Putnams Regiment, will your Excellency be so Obliging as to Order those Vacancies to be Supplied.
We are again in great distress for want of Shoes & other Clothing—we have not less than One Hundred & twenty men quite barefoot, is there no way to have a Supply sent to this Corps.4
every-thing is very quiet here, I shall make a grand forage tomorrow in Bergen—near the Copper mines in the Vicinity of Paulus Hook.5 Interim I am your Excellency’s most Obt & very Hume Sert.
AL[S], DLC:GW; ADfS, PHi: Wayne Papers.
1. Wayne’s aide-de-camp Henry Waldegrave Archer recently had been shot in his right arm during a duel (see Samuel Shaw to Winthrop Sargent, 27 Oct, in 303). Wayne desired Maj. Thomas Lloyd Moore to replace Archer.
2. Lieutenant Colonel Fleury had secured leave to visit France (see GW to La Luzerne, 23 Sept., and n.3 to that document).
3. Maj. William Hull and two other officers submitted a petition to the Massachusetts legislature seeking a solution to the problem of monetary depreciation that rendered army pay nearly worthless (see 171–74).
5. For Wayne’s recent foraging in the same general area, see his letter to GW, 4 Nov., and notes 1 and 2 to that document.