Letter from Francis Lewis to Roger Sherman

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New-York, May 2, 1776.

SIR: I have been favoured with your letter of the 25th ultimo, which should have answered sooner, but waited for an opportunity of consulting Colonel Mifflin, Quartermaster-General, on the subject of shoes, who informs me that the full quantity, (say ten thousand pair,) ordered by Congress, will be wanted for the Army. I have therefore directed Mr˙ Ogden to continue the shoemakers at work in Jersey, and have also employed others here. Stockings are not to be procured in this city; they must be got at Philadelphia, and money must be sent here to pay for the shoes.

Enclosed you have a return of shoes already delivered here. Hempen and yarn stockings will be the most suitable.

As our election for Delegates is to be on the 14th instant,

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FRANCIS LEWIS.

To Roger Sherman, Esquire, at Philadelphia.