BIB_ID
136778
Accession number
MA 488.23
Creator
Washington, George, 1732-1799.
Display Date
1781 Dec. 5.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 33.5 cm
Notes
Docketed.
The letter is in the handwriting of Tench Tilghman.
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.
The letter is in the handwriting of Tench Tilghman.
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
Instructing him to proceed to Elizabeth Town to "endeavour to effect the exchanges of such of our Officers as remain unreleased, for part of the British and Foreign lately taken at York in Virginia"; stressing that he should not agree to exchange "Lord Cornwallis for the present"; asking him to inquire into the rank of a General O'Hara; mentioning prisoners held in Canada, and asking Skinner to try to involve them in the exchange of prisoners.
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