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WASHINGTON, GEORGE, President. Letter signed ("G. Washington") as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army, to Brigadier General David Forman [in Monmouth County, New Jersey], the text of the letter in the hand of his aide-de-camp Jonathan Trumbull, Jr., Head Quarters [Verplanks Point, near Peekskill, New York], 9 September 1782. One page, folio, several fold separations incurring loss to 5 words, light staining.
"I have to acknowledge the Receipt of your two last Favors of the 3d and 7th instant--the last came to Hand at 1/2 after 10 o'clock this morning. [I have] only to [request] your watchful attention to the movements of the fleet and also your Endeavours to obtain any particular accounts from N York since the arrival of the last Packet from England, that may fall within our powers".
Written two months before the signing of the first provisional peace treaty between Great Britain and the new United States in Paris on November 30th, during the long and uneasy truce that followed the victory at Yorktown in the fall of 1781. As Brigadier General of the Jersey militia, Forman had acted as Washington's sentinel since 1780, keeping the Commander-in-Chief informed of the movements of British vessels off the coast. Not in Writings, ed. J. Fitzpatrick, but partially quoted, 25:141 note.
"I have to acknowledge the Receipt of your two last Favors of the 3d and 7th instant--the last came to Hand at 1/2 after 10 o'clock this morning. [I have] only to [request] your watchful attention to the movements of the fleet and also your Endeavours to obtain any particular accounts from N York since the arrival of the last Packet from England, that may fall within our powers".
Written two months before the signing of the first provisional peace treaty between Great Britain and the new United States in Paris on November 30th, during the long and uneasy truce that followed the victory at Yorktown in the fall of 1781. As Brigadier General of the Jersey militia, Forman had acted as Washington's sentinel since 1780, keeping the Commander-in-Chief informed of the movements of British vessels off the coast. Not in Writings, ed. J. Fitzpatrick, but partially quoted, 25:141 note.