The writings of George Washington; being his correspondence, addresses, messages, and other papers, official and private, selected and published from the original manuscripts; with a life of the author, notes and illustrations. By Jared Sparks.

PART T. THE FRENCH WAR. 119
place, there came in ten officers with twenty men only.
If I had any other than paper money, and you approved
of it, I would send to Pennsylvania and the borders of
Carolina. I am confident men might be had there.
Your Honor never having given any particular directions
about the provisions, I should be glad to know, whether
you would have more laid in, than will serve for twelve
hundred men, that I may give orders accordingly.
As I cannot now conceive, that any great danger can
be apprehended at Fort Cumberland this winter, I am
sensible, that my constant attendance there cannot be
so serviceable, as riding from place to place, making the
proper dispositions, and seeing that all our necessaries
are forwarded up with despatch. I therefore think it
advisable to inform your Honor of it, hoping it will correspond.with your own opinion.
Captain Mercer's pay as aid-de-camp seems yet
doubtful. I should be pleased if you would fix it; as
also Captain Stewart's. If Captain Stewart's is increased, I suppose all the officers belonging to the lighthorse will expect to have theirs augmented also. Colonel
Stephen, in a late letter, discovered an inclination to go
to the Creek and Cherokee Indians this winter. I told
him where to apply, if he had any such thoughts. I
believe, on so useful a business, he might be spared
until the spring.
If you think proper to order the act of Assembly for apprehending deserters, and against harbouring them, to be
published every Sunday in each parish church, until the
people are made acquainted with the law, it would have
a very good effect. The commonalty in general err
more through ignorance than design. Few of them
know that such a law exists, and there is no other certain way of bringing it to their knowledge. A great
many of the men, that once belonged to our companies,