To COLONEL DANIEL MORGAN Camp near German Town, August 9, 1777.     Sir: You will march to morrow morning the Corps under your Command for Maidenhead in the State of Jersey and there halt till you receive further Orders. You will take every possible care in your power, as well in your march, as during your stay at that place, to restrain every Species of licentiousness in the Soldiery and to prevent them doing the least injury to the Inhabitants or their property, as nothing can be more disserviceable to our cause, or more unworthy the character we possess, to say nothing of the injustice of the measure. I am etc.68 [Note:The draft is in the writing of Robert Hanson Harrison. The letter sent, which is in the New York Public Library, is also in Harrison's writing, and varies from the above in capitalization. To COLONEL DANIEL MORGAN Camp at the Cross Roads, Bucks County, Sunday, 10 o'clock P.M., August 10, 1777.     Sir: I have just recd an Express from Philada informing me that a large Fleet was seen off Sinepuxent Inlet on the 7th inst. You are therefore desired to halt wherever this finds you, and wait till we hear further of this matter. Let me know by Return of the Express where you are, that I may know how to direct for when I have occasion to send you Orders. I am, etc.     P.S. By ordering you to halt where this shall find you, I mean upon the most convenient ground near the place.78 [Note:The text is from the Magazine of American History , vol. 7, P. 137. ] To ]