BIB_ID
284149
Accession number
MA 507.28
Creator
Washington, George, 1732-1799.
Display Date
1781 June 10.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 33.8 cm
Notes
Docketed.
Franked address panel with additional Washington signature to "Brigadier General Clinton / Albany."
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.
Franked address panel with additional Washington signature to "Brigadier General Clinton / Albany."
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
Concerning troop positioning and readiness on the frontier; expressing his hope that "the distresses of your Troops for Provision are relieved" and relating what has been ordered; recommending to him "in the most earnest manner, that the greatest œconomy should be practised in the distribution and consumption of Provisions; especially that you would attend minutely to the issues of it, and have such effectual checks established as to prevent a single Ration from being issued to any person whatever, who is not properly entitled to it. A similar Regulation for this Army is under consideration, and will be immediately adopted."
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