Patrick Henry to Wythe, 10 June 1777
With this letter Patrick Henry sent George Wythe as Speaker of the House of Delegates anticipated expenses for maintaining the army for the coming year.[1]
Letter text
In Council, June 10th, 1777.Sir
By an order of the House of Delegates of the 4th Inst. the Governor and Privy Council were desired to lay before the House an Estimate of the probable Expence of the army the ensuing year. I have now the honor to send it herewith. It may be observed the Calculation is made upon one Regiment, and it will be increased according to the Number taken into pay. The Board of Council cannot give a satisfactory Estimate of the Expence of the Hospital Business because the number of Troops is not yet known & because the prices of almost every necessary, are so very fluctuating. I have therefore annexed a List of Articles containing general Heads of Expences, I am
- Sir
- Your mo. obedt Servt
- P. HENRY.
The Honble
George Wythe esqr
Speaker of the Honble House of Delegates.
See also
- Desposition of Gov. Henry as to Purchase of Lands from the Indians, 4 June 1777
- Patrick Henry to Wythe, 11 June 1777
References
- ↑ Gov. Henry to Geo. Wythe, Speaker of the House of Delegates (Va. State Archives, Ex. Com.)," in Official Letters of the Governors of the State of Virginia, vol. 1, The Letters of Patrick Henry, ed. H. R. McIlwaine (Richmond: Superintendent of Public Printing, 1926), 161.
