(AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) WASHINGTON, GEORGE. Letter Signed, "G:Washington," to "Sir" [Commissary General Jeremiah Wadsworth?], ordering that provisions be stockpiled at Pittsburgh to feed 1,200 troops for four months by the first of May. 1 page, 8x8¼ inches; tear and staining with some loss to lower edge touching signature, faint scattered staining, some loss to left corners, tiny holes at fold intersections, docketing verso. "Middle Brook" [Bridgewater Township, NJ], 12 February 1779 "You are to proceed without delay to form a Magazine of provisions at Pittsburg for twelve hundred Men for four Months. I could wish to have the Magazine completed by the first May next, or if possible before that time."
In early 1779, George Washington made preparations for a campaign against Fort Detroit from Fort Pitt, requiring attacks against the Seneca villages along the Allegheny River. In April, Washington ordered General Daniel Broadhead to cancel the campaign he led, but, with the approval of Washington, Broadhead continued disrupting the loyalists and allied Indians in the region, destroying crops and dwellings in order to drive them to under-resourced British camps.