1. The committee enclosed copies of Delaware governor Caesar Rodney’s letter of 25 June and Maryland governor Thomas Sim Lee’s letter of 26 June (both, DLC:GW). Rodney’s letter to the committee, written from Dover, Del., reads: “I this moment received your letter of the 19th with a copy of the Generals of the same date, and must beg leave to refer you to my letter of the 22d for an account of the Acts passed by the General Assembly, before they adjourned in consequence of your requisitions—I have now to inform you that I have Issued orders to the proper Officers throughout the State for collecting and forwarding the supplies, and have urged in the most pressing manner a speedy execution of them—No time shall be lost in turning out and Marching the 315 men of the Militia that are orderd to Join the Army of the United states—You may expect to hear from me frequently.” For the committee’s circular to the states of 19 June, see GW to the Committee at Headquarters, that date, n.3. In Rodney’s letter to the committee of 22 June, the governor announced the passage of the measures noted in his letter to GW of the same date (DNA:PCC, item 11).

Lee’s letter to the committee, written “In Council” from Annapolis, reads: “We have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your favour of the 19th Instant with a copy of his Excellency General Washingtons Letter relative to the important subjects of Compleating our Quota of Men and furnishing the Provisions before required. We see and feel the necessity of exerting ourselves to the utmost upon this very trying and critical occasion and if our power was equal to our inclinations the Commander in Chief would soon be extricated from his present very disagreable and embarrassing situation, and be enabled to form the plan of Operations to be pursued in concert with the French Commander. We have imparted the Contents of the Letters to the Assembly and can assure you that they are truly sensible of the critical and destressed situation of the Army and the difficulties and embarrassments that surround the General and need no arguments to prompt them to the fullest exertion of their abilities.”