BIB_ID
105249
Accession number
MA 488.104
Creator
Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786.
Display Date
1781 July 30.
Credit line
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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the New York dealer Joseph F. Sabin, 1907.
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."
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