Letter from General Washington to the Assembly of Massachusetts

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Cambridge, December 23, 1775.

SIR: Notwithstanding the great pains taken by the Quartermaster-General to procure blankets for the army, he finds it impossible to procure a number sufficient. He has tried the different places to the southward without success, as what were there are engaged to supply the troops in each place.

Our soldiers are in great distress, and I know of no other way to remedy the evil than applying to you. Cannot some be got from the different towns? Most houses could spare one; some of them many. If your honourable House will please to take this affair under your immediate consideration, and by some means or other procure as many as can be spared from the house-keepers, you will do infinite service to this Army, and very much oblige your humble servant,

GEORGE WASHINGTON.

The same to the New-Hampshire Convention; the same to Governour Trumbull, Connecticut; the same to Governour Cooke, Rhode-Island.