BIB_ID
284143
Accession number
MA 507.22
Creator
Washington, George, 1732-1799.
Display Date
1780 June 10.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 31.2 cm
Notes
Docketed.
In the hand of Richard Kidder Meade.
This item is part of a collection of letters from Washington to George and James Clinton; see main record for MA 507 for more information.
In the hand of Richard Kidder Meade.
This item is part of a collection of letters from Washington to George and James Clinton; see main record for MA 507 for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the New York Cooperative Society, 1906.
Summary
Telling him that "From the accounts which I have received from the northward, I am in hopes there will be no occasion for your advancing beyond Albany; cautioning him that if the Enemy has not retreated "you will return with the utmost expedition to West Point and put yourself under the command of Genl Howe or Genl Heath should he have arrived from Boston."
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