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[REVOLUTIONARY WAR.] WHIPPLE, William (1730-1785) Signer, Maryland. Letter signed (“Wm. Whipple”), to Quarter-Master General [Nathanael Greene], Philadelphia, 11 November 1778. Counter-signed by Nathaniel Scudder and Gouveneur Morris. 1 page, folio, repaired on verso.
TRYING TO AVOID ANOTHER VALLEY FORGE, Whipple and his fellow Congressmen Scudder and Morris “entreat” Greene to “repair to this place as soon as your business will permit, in order that we may confer on the state of your department. You will take care also, to procure every estimate in your power, of what may be necessary for the present winter, & the next campaigns. In the interim, we shall take such steps as may appear proper to us, for gaining information, .” Scudder, Morris and Whipple constituted the Congressional Committee that oversaw the Commissary and Quarter Master departments of the Continental Army. After the disaster of the Valley Forge winter encampment of the year before, Congress fired Thomas Mifflin as QMG and taped the capable Greene to replace him.