BIB_ID
284144
Accession number
MA 507.23
Creator
Washington, George, 1732-1799.
Display Date
1780 Oct 28.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 34.0 cm
Notes
Address panel franked with additional Washington signature and with traces of a seal to "Brigadier General Clinton / at / West Point."
Docketed.
In the hand of Alexander Hamilton with the postscript in the hand of David Humphreys.
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.
Docketed.
In the hand of Alexander Hamilton with the postscript in the hand of David Humphreys.
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
Appointing him to the command at "Albany and on the Frontier;" asking him to be "particularly attentive to the post of Fort Schuyler and do everything in your power to have it supplied with a good stock of provision and stores; and you will take every other precaution the means at your command will permit, for the security of the Frontier, giving me the most early advice of any incursions of the enemy;" adding, in a postscript, that he has been informed that "a great number of Arms have been delivered at Albany;" asking that "every possible means may be used to recover them to the public; and no more be delivered to Militia."
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