Head Quarters, Bergen County, September 16, 1780.
Dear Sir: I have recd. yours of the 13th: as I have your several late favors with their inclosures.
It is impossible for me, circumstanced as matters are, to give a positive answer to C -- juniors request; as I cannot, without knowing his views, tell what are his expectations. Of this, both you and he may rest assured, that should he continue servicable and faithful, and should the issue of our Affairs prove as favorable as we hope, I shall be ready to recommend him to the public, if public employ shall be his aim, and if not that I shall think myself bound to represent his conduct in the light it deserves and procure him a compensation of another kind.
I shall take the first good opportunity of sending you a further sum of Money for contingencies. I am etc.95
[Note:The draft is in the writing of Tench Tilghman.]