BIB_ID
105268
Accession number
MA 488.122
Creator
Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786.
Display Date
1781 Oct. 24.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, 1907.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 45.7 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 Maryland Hall of Records, Annapolis.
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 Maryland Hall of Records, Annapolis.
Provenance
Purchased by J.P. Morgan from the New York dealer Joseph F. Sabin, 1907.
Summary
Sending him a return of the troops from Maryland serving with Greene's army; saying that he is "happy to hear of a considerable force having arrived in Virginia under General [Mordecai] Gist, & joined General [George] Washington in his operations against Lord Cornwallis"; praising the Maryland soldiers for their "gallant behavior ... in the last action"; expressing his hope that "Maryland will loose no time in compleating her line" as "it will give security to herself, & proper aid to her distressed neighbours, who have suffered more by the war than she has."
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