BIB_ID
124301
Accession number
MA 558.71
Creator
Marion, Francis, 1732-1795.
Display Date
1778 Dec. 9.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1905.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 32.3 cm
Notes
Endorsed.
The recipient is referred to as "Y'r Excellency."
This item is part of a collection of autograph letters and documents by Generals of the American Revolution; see collection record (MA 558) for more information.
The recipient is referred to as "Y'r Excellency."
This item is part of a collection of autograph letters and documents by Generals of the American Revolution; see collection record (MA 558) for more information.
Summary
Reporting on the sighting of an enemy ship in the harbor which reportedly fired at a French sloop the previous evening; submitting returns for his military and regimental stores for the Garrison; apprising him that "this post is supplied with provisions from day to day & that no provision is laid up here, should there be a Sudden Attack; You will find by the returns what Defence can be made. I should wait on your Excellency in person, But the necessary works on repairing the fort I have under taken (to supervise, as no person could be got that would under take it) & if I leave it the whole work must stop till I return."
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