Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania to Colonel John Lacey, Jr.
January 9, 1778

Sir,

You are this day appointed to be Brigadier General of this State, and the Secretary will, by Col. HART, forward to you a Commission empowering you to act as such.

Brigadier General POTTER has obtained leave to visit his family, and you are to take the command in his absence.

Two classes of Militia from the county of York, two from the county of Cumberland, two from the county of Northampton, and one from the county of Northumberland, are now ordered into the field; and the Lieutenants of the counties of Philadelphia and of Bucks are directed to supply you with twenty Light Horse, each without officers as they must be necessarily divided into small parties, where officers will be useless.