In the hand of Washington's military secretary, Robert Hanson Harrison, but signed by Washington. "The Enemy's fleet having left the Hook and gone to Sea, I ... request that you will immediately repair with your Regiment to the City of Philadelphia and put yourself under the direction of the commanding officer there." "You will not lose a moment's time and will order your baggage to follow under a proper guard." Watermark: Powder horn & GR; apparently not in Gravell, though similar to his example 300 in "Foreign watermarks", p. 94; but the powder horn faces the opposite direction, and the chain lines intersect the letters in different places. Page [2] is address page. Portion of seal extant. Gift of Evelyn Lansdale Wildman and Clare Lansdale Johnston, through the agency of their father, Philip Moylan Lansdale, a member of the Maryland Society of the Cincinnati