Delegates to Congress . Letters of delegates to Congress, 1774-1789, Volume 16, September 1 1780-February 28 1781
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Committee on the Pennsylvania Mutiny to To: George Washington


Sir,
Trenton January 7th. 1781

   The Committee appointed by Congress to quiet the disturbances of the Pennsylvania Line &ca. think it proper to inform your Excellency that they arrived at this Place last night after dark; And that President Reed who acts in concert with us has proceeded to the neighbourhood of Princetown at which place those Troops are now posted. We Are happy to inform your Excellency that some favourable appearances of a speedy and honorable, as well as a safe Accommodation has appeared in their Conduct this Morning, as they have given an earnest of their Sincerity and intentions by no means


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equivocal by seizing a Negociator sent to them from New York, together with his Conductor, both of whom they delivered up to Genl. Wayne, and have sent them out under a Guard with their Papers, they are actually now in the Hands of Pesident Reed, and we do ourselves the Honor of sending your Excellency a Copy of the Terms offered them in writing by those Emissaries.(1) Shou'd your Excellency have any Communications to make Congress relative to the present State and Temper of the Army, we request that you will be pleased to make them through us, and direct them to this place.(2)

   We are with the highest and the most sincere esteem and regard, Your Excellencys Most obt. Hble. Servts. by order of the Committee.Jno Sullivan


Note:

    (DLC: Washington Papers). Written by Samuel Atlee, and signed by John Sullivan.



1 For these "Terms," see the enclosure of the committee's letter to Samuel Huntington, this date.



2 Washington declined to respond directly to the committee, preferring to communicate through Gen. Arthur St. Clair, to whom he explained that: "I do not think it prudent to write to the Committee of Congress; to Governor Reed, or to General Wayne, lest my letters should be stopped. " See Washington, Writings (Fitzpatrick), 21:92, 112.