I have been duely honored with your several Favours of the 7th, 8th, and 10th continued to the 11th in the Order of their respective Dates, and immediately laid them before Congress.(1)
I have ordered one Thousand Copies of the Resolves relative to putting a Stop to any Intercourse between the Enemy in Philada. and the disaffected among us, to be printed at Lancaster, and to be forwarded thence to you for the Use of the Army.(2)
Having Nothing more in Charge from Congress, I shall only refer
1 These letters are in PCC, item 152, 5:89-92, 97, 101-3, and Washington, Writings (Fitzpatrick), 9:319-23, 332, 349-52.
2 These resolves had been passed on October 8. JCC, 9:784.
3 These were October 13 resolves on French officers and money and supplies for the army. JCC, 9:798-99. On the 13th Hancock had also written a brief personal letter to Brig. Gen. William Woodford, commander of the Second Virginia Regiment, wishing him a "speedy Recovery" from the wound he had received at Brandywine. Peter Force Collection, DLC,