I had the honor of writing to you a day or two ago,1 and transmitting a letter from the committee of Congress now at Camp, containing a representation of the present alarming distresses of the army for want of provisions: They press upon us with such increasing violence, and threaten such fatal consequences, unless the most vigorous measure be persued to effect an immediate remedy, that I have thought proper to send Mr Tilghman, in case any accident should have happen’d to those letters, to give you a just picture of our situation, and, with your aid and concurrence to take the most effectual methods for procuring us a speedy, though temporary relief, from the magazines which have been established in your state.2 I have the honor to be With much esteem & Respect Sir Yr most Obedt servt