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[REVOLUTIONARY WAR.] WARREN, James (1726-1808). Autograph letter signed (“JWarren”), to Elbridge Gerry (1744-1814), Cambridge, 15 September 1777. 1 page, folio, blank integral, address leaf, seal hole, remnants of mounting on address leaf.
"OUR TROOPS HAD SO SURROUNDED JOHN BURGOYNE ESQ. THAT HE MUST FIGHT OR STARVE"
Fine war-related content, as Warren looks forward to the looming battle at Saratoga: “General Washington has a fine army & (if Howe done run away) I hope will be victorious. We hear there has been skirmishing between the two armies, much in our favour. Our affairs to the northward wore a very good appearance by the last accounts. I expect to hear a general action very soon. Our troops had so surrounded John Burgoin [sic] Esq. that he must fight or starve. He can neither retreat or advance without our Generals are determined to give him no more ground, but to dispute every inch…God Grant us Success.” He speaks about shipments of supplies he has sent off to “the Clothiers Agents,” and says “I have just rec’d an order from Mr. Morris to deliver all the Shirting, Cloath & Blankets rec’d by Williamson Sinclair & Andrews so that nothing will then be left here of those things wanted for the Navy…” It was Horatio Gates, of course, and not Washington, who commanded at Saratoga, but Warren (no relation to Dr. Joseph Warren of Bunker Hill fame) is obviously speaking of the Continental Army generally. An early, vocal partisan to the patriot cause, Sam Adams remarked on Warren’s “noble Spirit of resentment” against the British. He established Plymouth’s Committee of Correspondence, and worked closely with Washington at Cambridge in July 1775, “establishing their longtime friendship. Proud of his own administration, Warren nevertheless resigned in 1776 when Washington and the Continental army moved to New York. He was elected to the important post of Speaker of the house in the new commonwealth government and used his influence to bolster military defense and establish a navy” (ADNB). He was the husband of Mary Otis, the famed historian of the Revolution.
"OUR TROOPS HAD SO SURROUNDED JOHN BURGOYNE ESQ. THAT HE MUST FIGHT OR STARVE"
Fine war-related content, as Warren looks forward to the looming battle at Saratoga: “General Washington has a fine army & (if Howe done run away) I hope will be victorious. We hear there has been skirmishing between the two armies, much in our favour. Our affairs to the northward wore a very good appearance by the last accounts. I expect to hear a general action very soon. Our troops had so surrounded John Burgoin [sic] Esq. that he must fight or starve. He can neither retreat or advance without our Generals are determined to give him no more ground, but to dispute every inch…God Grant us Success.” He speaks about shipments of supplies he has sent off to “the Clothiers Agents,” and says “I have just rec’d an order from Mr. Morris to deliver all the Shirting, Cloath & Blankets rec’d by Williamson Sinclair & Andrews so that nothing will then be left here of those things wanted for the Navy…” It was Horatio Gates, of course, and not Washington, who commanded at Saratoga, but Warren (no relation to Dr. Joseph Warren of Bunker Hill fame) is obviously speaking of the Continental Army generally. An early, vocal partisan to the patriot cause, Sam Adams remarked on Warren’s “noble Spirit of resentment” against the British. He established Plymouth’s Committee of Correspondence, and worked closely with Washington at Cambridge in July 1775, “establishing their longtime friendship. Proud of his own administration, Warren nevertheless resigned in 1776 when Washington and the Continental army moved to New York. He was elected to the important post of Speaker of the house in the new commonwealth government and used his influence to bolster military defense and establish a navy” (ADNB). He was the husband of Mary Otis, the famed historian of the Revolution.