York-Town [Pa.] May 25 1778
[Extract] My dear sir
Your favor1 by Capt Coltor2 overtook me on the Road; agreeably to your Request I immediately on my Arrival here mentioned to a Gentleman of the Marine Committee the Necessity and Importance of keeping your Board3 duly supplyd with Cash to enable you effectually to do the duty of your Department, and was told that 50.m of Dollars had been lately remitted to you.4 I will not fail to do what in me lies to forward that Service, as our Navy has always lain near my Heart. . . .
L, MHi, Warren-Adams Collection, Adams Papers. Addressed below close: “Hon Mr Warren.” Docketed: “Mr S. A. Letter/May 25 78.” This is the recipient’s copy without signature.
1. See Warren to Adams, 8 May, above.
2. Capt. Harmon Courter.
3. Continental Navy Board of the Eastern Department.
4. On 23 May, Congress ordered that $50,000 be sent to the Continental Navy Board of the Eastern Department. See Continental Marine Committee to Continental Navy Board of the Eastern Department, 26 May, below.
