To George Washington from the Justices of Morris County, New Jersey, 27 March 1780
From the Justices of Morris County, New Jersey
Morris Town 27th March 1780
sir
Your Excellency was pleased to say, in a letter to us dated at Morris Town Jany 20th1 1780 that you would direct the Qur Mr Genl to examine the damages which the troops have done to the prison and Courthouse at this place and to have it repaired far as circumstances would permit.
We beg leave to inform your Excellency that no such repairs have been made, that the House is so damaged as that it is rendered in a great Measure Useless and that the Qu. Mr at this post declines giveing us any Assistance towards refiting it without an Order for the purpose.
Will Your Excellency be pleased therefore to signify your pleasure on the subject to him or the present Q[u]arter Master Genl.2
In behalf of the Justices of the County of Morris—I have the Honour to be with the highest Esteem Your Excellencys Most Obed. & Very Hbe Ser.
Benjn Hallsey
ALS, DLC:GW. No reply from GW has been found.
1. Benjamin Hallsey is referring to GW’s letter to the justices dated 27 Jan.; see also Justices of Morris County to GW, 25 January.
2. Subsequent communications on repairs to the Morris County buildings to Q.M. Gen. Nathanael Greene or to Joseph Lewis, deputy assistant quartermaster general at Morristown, have not been identified. For a description of the courthouse and jail, which presumably were repaired, as they were not replaced until 1827, see , 154.