Albany, January 25, 1781.
Dear Sir:
Yesterday I received your favor of the sixteenth instant. It affords
me pleasure to learn that the Pennsylvania line is reduced to order;
but we in this quarter are on the point of experiencing a similar
commotion. Two regiments threaten to march to head quarters, unless
some money is paid them, the certificates for the depreciation
expedited, and, in future, better supplied with provisions. Yesterday,
about three thousand bushels of wheat, six hundred pounds worth of beef
and three or four thousand dollars, were subscribed. I am in hopes
we shall procure what will afford each man about ten dollars; and I
have some hopes that this, with a little management, will render them
tolerably quiet.
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Entreat the General and his lady to accept my best wishes. Do not
forget to remember me to Colonels Harrison and Tilghman. Adieu.
I am, dear Sir,
Most affectionately,
Yours, etc., etc.,
Ph: Schuyler.
Colonel Hamilton.