1. Congress on 28 June read GW’s letter to Jay of 23 June (JCC, description begins Worthington Chauncey Ford et al., eds. Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789. 34 vols. Washington, D.C., 1904–37. description ends 14:778).

2. The enclosed copy of a letter from John Morgan to Jay of 15 June is in DLC: GW; see also GW to Morgan, 24 June, and n.1 to that document. The other enclosure, a copy of a resolution that Congress passed on 15 June, likewise is in DLC:GW; see also JCC, description begins Worthington Chauncey Ford et al., eds. Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789. 34 vols. Washington, D.C., 1904–37. description ends 14:733–34. For the decision to postpone a court-martial for William Shippen, Jr., see GW to Jay, 9 July; Jay to GW, 20 July, and n.4 to that document; Morgan to GW, 20 July; and the first Council of General Officers, 26 July. A court-martial finally acquitted Shippen in July 1780, and Congress approved the decision the following month (see the general orders for 13 March and 21 June 1780; GW to Samuel Huntington, 15 July [DNA:PCC, item 152]; and JCC, description begins Worthington Chauncey Ford et al., eds. Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789. 34 vols. Washington, D.C., 1904–37. description ends 17:744–46; see also Huntington to GW, 24 Aug. [DLC:GW], and Bell, John Morgan, description begins Whitfield J. Bell, Jr. John Morgan: Continental Doctor. Philadelphia, 1965. description ends 222–39).

Benjamin Rush, presumably in later June 1779, wrote Morgan in support of the allegations against Shippen, renewing his earlier charges: “I congratulate you upon your better success in awakening the attention of the Congress so far to a sense of their duty as to procure an order for a court to inquire into Dr. Shippen’s conduct during his directorship of the military hospitals. You will be obliged to wade through an ocean of iniquity. I hope justice will be done to the public. A sacrifice is necessary to atone for the many thousands of our brave countrymen who perished from the want of necessaries of all kinds in the hospitals of Bethlehem, Reading, Lancaster, Dunkers town, Yellow Springs, Princeton, Burlington, and Trenton. . . . As I have no doubt of your success in fixing the guilt of neglecting and robbing our hospitals upon the person who has done both, I have only to assure you that no man will rejoice more in seeing justice done to his country than your most humble servant” (Butterfield, Rush Letters, description begins L. H. Butterfield, ed. Letters of Benjamin Rush. 2 vols. Princeton, N.J., 1951. description ends 1:225–29).

3. The enclosed copy of this resolution, which Congress passed on 28 June, reads: “That it be earnestly recommended to the several States by the most speedy & vigorous Efforts to fill up their respective Battalions agreeably to the Resolution of Congress of 9th day of March last, that nothing may be wanting on their part to render the present Campaign glorious and decisive” (DLC:GW; see also JCC, description begins Worthington Chauncey Ford et al., eds. Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789. 34 vols. Washington, D.C., 1904–37. description ends 13:298–99 and 14:780).

4. The enclosed copy of this resolution, which Congress also passed on 28 June, in part reads: “That when Vacancies of Commission Officers happen in any of the regiments raised by the respective States for the Continental Army, notice thereof shall be given to the executive Authority of the State to which the regiment belongs by the Commanding Officer of such regiment, to the end that proper persons may be appointed to fill such Vacancies agreeable to the resolution of the 8th of March last having due regard to the rules of promotion recommended by a resolution of Congress of the 24th of November 1778” (DLC: GW; see also GW to Jay, 29 July [first letter], postscript, and JCC description begins Worthington Chauncey Ford et al., eds. Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789. 34 vols. Washington, D.C., 1904–37. description ends : 12:1154–59, 13:289–91, and 14:778–79).