Clothing for the Southern Army from Charleston: Page #6

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as well for the sake of removing such an idea, as to avert from myself any mischief, that a heedless surmise, illegible in a confidential letter to a partner, might inherit or deserve, hereby certify and declare upon the Holy Evangelists, that he never has or does hold any conviction with me, either directly or indirectly, and that he never intimated, suggested, or exprefsed a wish or desire to this effect.

(Signed) John Banks.

Sworn to before me this 3rd January 1783.

(Signed) Iby? Pendleton.

I do certify that the foregoing extracts of letters to? from Major General Greene, to Major General Lincoln, Secretary at War, from No. 1 to No. 5 inclusive, are true extracts and copies, taken from the files of the War Office of the United States.

John Stagg, Jun. Ch. bths.?

War Department, December 23d, 1791?

D.

Dear Sir,

Robert Morris, Esquire, Financier for the United States, has in his advertisements for receiving proposals for contracts for supplying the army with rations, directed them to be made to me, in the States of North and South Carolina and Georgia, but in his letter of the 17th of October, 1782, he desires