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[AMERICAN REVOLUTION]. CLINTON, George (1739-1812), Brigadier General, Continental Army. Autograph letter signed ("Geo: Clinton") to Brigadier General Abraham Ten Broeck (1734-1810), Poughkeepsie, N.Y., 5 August 1779. 1 page, folio, with numerous corrections and changes by Clinton, lightly browned, otherwise fine. Matted with portrait in a burlwood frame, unexamined out of frame.
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[AMERICAN REVOLUTION]. CLINTON, George (1739-1812), Brigadier General, Continental Army. Autograph letter signed ("Geo: Clinton") to Brigadier General Abraham Ten Broeck (1734-1810), Poughkeepsie, N.Y., 5 August 1779. 1 page, folio, with numerous corrections and changes by Clinton, lightly browned, otherwise fine. Matted with portrait in a burlwood frame, unexamined out of frame.
CLINTON ORDERS THE CAPTURE OF ST. LEGER AND HIS TORY RAIDERS
A letter evidently revised six days after it was begun, ordering Ten Broeck, commander of the militia of Ulster and Dutchess counties, to take immediate steps to defend the western frontiers of New York from Joseph Brant and the British, and to apprehend General St. Leger and his expeditionary force. Appointed to command in the Hudson Highlands by Washington, Clinton spent much of the war dealing with repeated incursions of Indians and Tories. "The enclosed account given by one Owens a Deserter from a Party of savages & Tories under the command of Brandt [Col. Joseph Brant] who last week, destroyed several houses etc. in Minisink, I have thought proper to transmit you that with the Commissioners for defeating Conspiracies you may concert the most early & effectual measures for apprehending & securing Leger and his party of Tories therein mentioned, and...to protect the settlements of [Catskill] against the Danger with which they are threatened."
Clinton details a recent militia engagement: "A Party of the Militia of Orange & Ulster Counties pursued the Enemy who were at Minisink tho' unsuccessful...attacked them with great bravery about 25 Miles from that place." Finally, the General offers his opinion of a forthcoming draft of militia.
After leading a failed expedition during Burgoyne's Saratoga Campaign, British General Barry St. Leger (1737-1789) commanded a band of Tory and Indian Rangers based in Canada which continued to threaten the northern frontier.
CLINTON ORDERS THE CAPTURE OF ST. LEGER AND HIS TORY RAIDERS
A letter evidently revised six days after it was begun, ordering Ten Broeck, commander of the militia of Ulster and Dutchess counties, to take immediate steps to defend the western frontiers of New York from Joseph Brant and the British, and to apprehend General St. Leger and his expeditionary force. Appointed to command in the Hudson Highlands by Washington, Clinton spent much of the war dealing with repeated incursions of Indians and Tories. "The enclosed account given by one Owens a Deserter from a Party of savages & Tories under the command of Brandt [Col. Joseph Brant] who last week, destroyed several houses etc. in Minisink, I have thought proper to transmit you that with the Commissioners for defeating Conspiracies you may concert the most early & effectual measures for apprehending & securing Leger and his party of Tories therein mentioned, and...to protect the settlements of [Catskill] against the Danger with which they are threatened."
Clinton details a recent militia engagement: "A Party of the Militia of Orange & Ulster Counties pursued the Enemy who were at Minisink tho' unsuccessful...attacked them with great bravery about 25 Miles from that place." Finally, the General offers his opinion of a forthcoming draft of militia.
After leading a failed expedition during Burgoyne's Saratoga Campaign, British General Barry St. Leger (1737-1789) commanded a band of Tory and Indian Rangers based in Canada which continued to threaten the northern frontier.