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Sir:

I have just received yours, with General Greene's letter inclosed, and in consequence of which shall march the troops under my command consisting of about 500 men with about 200 indifferent stand Arms by the shortest route to Salisbury. I expect we shall be in order to march by Sunday morning at farthest. I have wrote to the Baron Steuben of my route being altered, & have requested

he will send me 300 stands arms to meet me at Hillsborough or Salisbury which General Greene mentions he informed him he had sent forward to me.

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