1To George Washington from Colonel Matthew Mead, 5 November 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have recd your Letters of the 12th & 13th ult. & have been on to the eastward as far as Stratford & employed all the troops in the towns between this town & that in getting Fascines &c. agreeable to Major Murnands directions an estimate of which I enclose your Excellency. The number of troops in each town that can be employed is about eighty & those on guard at night many of them I have in...