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Autograph letter signed : "Head quarters," South Carolina, to Governor [Caesar] Rodney, 1781 Oct. 24.

BIB_ID
105267
Accession number
MA 488.125
Creator
Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786.
Display Date
1781 Oct. 24.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, 1907.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 44.5 cm
Notes
Docketed.
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.
This letter is probably a draft of a letter signed held by the Library Company of Philadelphia.
Provenance
Purchased by J.P. Morgan from the New York dealer Joseph F. Sabin, 1907.
Summary
Writing that he is enclosing a return of the Delaware troops that shows that the state is "far short" of having its quota of troops in the field; telling him that the Delaware troops serving the army "have upon all occasions behaved with the greatest gallantry and good conduct"; congratulating him on the "happy prospects in Virginia."