Autograph letter signed : "Head quarters, high hills Santee" [S.C.], to Major Samuel Stirk, 1781 Sept. 23.

Record ID: 
105259
Accession number: 
MA 488.115
Author: 
Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786.
Credit: 
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, 1907.
Description: 
1 item (2 p.) ; 32.5 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: 

Discussing the appointment of Major [Joseph] Woodruff; congratulating him "on General [Francis] Marion's victory at Pon Pon and ours at the Eutaw and of our happy prospects in Virginia from the arrival of the French fleet with a large land force."

Provenance: 
Purchased by J.P. Morgan from the New York dealer Joseph F. Sabin, 1907.