BIB_ID
102700
Accession number
MA 488.99
Creator
Gist, Mordecai, 1743-1792.
Display Date
1781 Sept. 18.
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 34.8 cm
Notes
Docketed as "8 Sept. 1781."
Addressed to "Doctor Richard Smith & Singleton Wooton Esqr."
This item is part of a collection of letters and documents concerning the siege of Yorktown and the surrender of Cornwallis; see main record for MA 488-489 for more information.
Addressed to "Doctor Richard Smith & Singleton Wooton Esqr."
This item is part of a collection of letters and documents concerning the siege of Yorktown and the surrender of Cornwallis; see main record for MA 488-489 for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the New York dealer Joseph F. Sabin, 1907.
Summary
Announcing that General [George] Washington "will arrive here in the course of the day from whence he will proceed with his family with all possible despatch to Virginia"; mentioning that he will need fresh horses in Baltimore and "Queen Anns"; writing, "Knowing your wishes to forward an enterprise of so much consequence as the Capture of Cornwallis & his Army, I have taken the liberty of requesting you, to Interest yourselves in procuring the horses wanting on this occasion, which will greatly facilitate the march of his Excellency and the favor wilil be duly acknowledged."
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