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WASHINGTON, George. Letter signed ("G:o Washington") to Charles Pettit, Headquarters, 9 September 1778. 1 page, folio. Text in the hand of Tench Tilghman.
WASHINGTON FEARS A BRITISH MOVE AGAINST BOSTON AND READIES TO SHIFT HIS ARMY NORTH AND EAST
Washington tells his Deputy Quartermaster General that, "I have more reason for thinking that the Army will have occasion to remove from its present position shortly, than when I wrote to you two days ago. I therefore desire you will immediately send off all of the supernumerary stores of your department. I think it would save land carriage if they were transported by water above the posts in the highlands, and removed from thence more inland, at leisure. The ox teams you mentioned should be collected as quick as possible, as I mean to remove sick, and all the spare stores of every department from this ground." On the 7th, Washington told Pettit that "if the Enemy continue in New York this Winter, we shall be obliged to quarter a considerable Force at and in the vicinity of the Highland posts." He asked Pettit to "immediately contract for a quantity of Boards, Plank, Scantlin and Nails for the purpose of building Barracks" (Fitzpatrick, 12:411-412). By the 9th, Washington's attitude was changed as a result of news that the British might be threatening French Admiral Charles d'Estaing's fleet in Boston. The Frenchman's force was under repair after a fiasco of miscoordination between d'Estaing and American General Sullivan in the battle off Newport in late August. What Washington had heard about d'Estaing's performance in Rhode Island did not inspire any confidence in his new ally's ability to repel a British assault upon Boston. He wanted to move a detachment of troop's northward and eastward, to Danbury, Connecticut, to be able to defend any British land and sea attack that might emerge. By November, the threat against Boston abated as the British fleet withdrew, but Washington still thought the next field of battle would be somewhere in the northeast, and to meet all contingencies he made winter quarters in three different places: Danbury, West Point and Middlebrook, New Jersey. But with the campaigning season of 1779, the theatre of battle had shifted to the South.
WASHINGTON FEARS A BRITISH MOVE AGAINST BOSTON AND READIES TO SHIFT HIS ARMY NORTH AND EAST
Washington tells his Deputy Quartermaster General that, "I have more reason for thinking that the Army will have occasion to remove from its present position shortly, than when I wrote to you two days ago. I therefore desire you will immediately send off all of the supernumerary stores of your department. I think it would save land carriage if they were transported by water above the posts in the highlands, and removed from thence more inland, at leisure. The ox teams you mentioned should be collected as quick as possible, as I mean to remove sick, and all the spare stores of every department from this ground." On the 7th, Washington told Pettit that "if the Enemy continue in New York this Winter, we shall be obliged to quarter a considerable Force at and in the vicinity of the Highland posts." He asked Pettit to "immediately contract for a quantity of Boards, Plank, Scantlin and Nails for the purpose of building Barracks" (Fitzpatrick, 12:411-412). By the 9th, Washington's attitude was changed as a result of news that the British might be threatening French Admiral Charles d'Estaing's fleet in Boston. The Frenchman's force was under repair after a fiasco of miscoordination between d'Estaing and American General Sullivan in the battle off Newport in late August. What Washington had heard about d'Estaing's performance in Rhode Island did not inspire any confidence in his new ally's ability to repel a British assault upon Boston. He wanted to move a detachment of troop's northward and eastward, to Danbury, Connecticut, to be able to defend any British land and sea attack that might emerge. By November, the threat against Boston abated as the British fleet withdrew, but Washington still thought the next field of battle would be somewhere in the northeast, and to meet all contingencies he made winter quarters in three different places: Danbury, West Point and Middlebrook, New Jersey. But with the campaigning season of 1779, the theatre of battle had shifted to the South.