MORRIS, Gouverneur (1752-1816). Autograph letter signed ("Gouvr Morris") to Col. Henry Glen, Kingston, 2 April 1777.

One page, 195 x 242mm., bifolium, with integral address leaf addressed to "Henry Glenn Esq" in Morris's hand. Docketed by Henry Glenn on the verso (loss at left edge from seal removal, resulting to a loss of a few letters).

On the "Arrival of Muskets." A letter that opens with a request on behalf of "a Friend for sundry Garden Seeds," including "Onions Carrots & Pumpkin but particularly Squash seed." He concludes noting that there was "no News at present worth repeating," assuming Colonel Glen had already "heard of the Arrival of Muskets &ca to the Eastward & [Nor]thward to the Tune of above 20.000." On 1 April 1777, Robert Morris reported to John Jay that news had arrived of two arms deliveries: the first in Maryland arriving aboard a French brig laden with 6,800 muskets, 2100 gun locks and over 600 barrels of gunpowder; another ship came to Portsmouth, New Hampshire with 12,000 muskets and 1,000 barrels of gunpowder. (Robert Morris to John Jay, 1 April 1777, Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jay/01-01-02-0222.)