BIB_ID
102998
Accession number
MA 488.98
Creator
Gist, Mordecai, 1743-1792.
Display Date
1781 Sept. 14.
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Acquired before 1927.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 30.3 cm
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Docketed.
Removed in 1927 from Irving's Life of Washington, v. IV.
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.
Removed in 1927 from Irving's Life of Washington, v. IV.
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.
Summary
Acknowledging receipt of Greene's letters; mentioning Col. [Lewis] Morris's impatience to leave town; giving details of the Maryland recruits, and noting that they will stay with the Marquis [de Lafayette] until [George] Washington gives further orders; telling him that he is going to Virginia, and he expects that "the reduction of the enemies post at York Town, and the surrender of their Army will engage but little of our time on the March to South Carolina"; offering his congratulations on the arrival of the French fleet.
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