Record ID:
105249
Accession number:
MA 488.104
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description:
1 item (3 p.) ; 37.5 cm
Notes:
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:
Deploring the practice of plundering and ordering him to take every step possible to stop it; writing that it is in their interest "to encourage the return of the Tories," and asking him to give them "all the encouragement in [his] power; and afford them all the protection [he] can"; reporting that "the Enemy remain pretty quiet at Orangeburgh"'; asking for "an account [of] what has become of the Waggons left in Long Cane settlement"; telling him that "Lord Cornwallis is some where between Petersburgh and Portsmouth."
Provenance:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the New York dealer Joseph F. Sabin, 1907.
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