Congress having received further information respecting the number of survivors of the late Colonel Baylor's Party have judged it necessary to repeal their Act of the 6th Instant for an immediate exchange, and inclosed you will find an Act of Yesterday's date for that purpose to which I beg leave to refer you,(1) And remain with great Esteem and Regard, Sir &c.
1 See JCC, 12:987, 991. Although the journals are silent on the point, the "further information respecting the number of survivors of the late Colonel Baylor's Party" is apparently a reference to Washington's letter to Laurens of October 3, which was read in Congress on the seventh. JCC, 12:987. Washington's letter is in Washington, Writings (Fitzpatrick), 13:14 15, and PCC, item 152, 6:391-94. For Congress' initial response to news of the "massacre" of George Baylor's regiment, which was considerably exaggerated, see Laurens to William Livingston, October 6, 1778. The fact that Laurens' letterbook contains no letter to Beatty transmitting the original October 6 resolution is explained by the fact that he had been in Philadelphia at that time, and, indeed, had been the bearer of Laurens' October 6 letter to Livingston.