430 Journal and Correspondence.

February 19

[Thos. White Kent County Delaware State Deposition]

I hereby Certify to whom it may Concern that I am well acquainted
with M^r Freeborn Garretson and that he has been an Inhabitant of
this State for near Eighteen month Last past dureing which time he
has supported an unblemished Character and Generally supposed to
be a man of Great Piety, and I believe has Comply^d with the Laws of
the State in Every Instance so far as Related to a Preacher of the
Gospel.

Brown
Book No. i
Letter
No. 28
February 20

[George Washington, Head Qrs. Morristown, to Gov. Lee]

Sir Your Excellency will have received, I make no doubt, a Copy
of an Act of Congress of the 9^th Instant, ascertaining the Quotas
of non Commissioned Officers and privates to be furnished by the
Respective States for the ensuing Campaign, and directing all the
men in the additional Corps, Guards, Artillery and Horse and the
Regimented Artificers in the Departments of the Quarter Master
General and Commissary General of Military Horses, as well as
those of the Battalions in the State lines, whose times of service do
not expire before the last of September next, to be considered as part
of the Quotas of the States to which they respectively belong. The
Quota of the State of Maryland is fixed at 3238, and I have now
the honor to inclose your Excellency a Special Return of the Non
Commissioned Officers and Privates in her Seven Battalions and of
the men belonging to her in Spencer's & Hazen's Regiments, serving
with Harrison's Regiment of Artillery in the late Gale's Artillery
Company. Lee's Corps and the Artillery Artificers; desig-
nating in a particular manner, the proportion engaged for the
War and by monthly column periods when, and in what propor-
tion the services of the Rest will expire. Your Excellency will
observe by the Act, that the men whose engagements expire before
the last of September and I have already taken the liberty to
mention are not to be counted as part of the 3238 and therefore
according to the Return inclosed the deficiency to be raised recredit-
ing also the 26 in the German Battalion is 1047. There are however
a few Corps besides those I have mentioned not acting immediately
with the part of the Army in which there may be some men belonging
to the State, and I consider it as an unlucky circumstance that I have
not such Returns of them in my possession as will ascertain the point
and the credit to which the State may be entitled in consequence.
The principal one is the German Battalion. I expect a Return of
this and of one or two more Corps when I shall take the earliest
occasion after obtaining them, to advise your Excellency of the
number of them in them belonging to the State. I have thought it
more eligible to transmit the present Return than to delay it, till
those of every little detached Corps could be collected, as the want