1From George Washington to Ebenezer Stevens, 2 May 1781 (Washington Papers)
You will be pleased immediately to order out a party of fifteen or twenty picked Men under proper officers to go with Major Logan, lately of the York Line, to endeavour to apprehend a gang of notorious Villains in this neighbourhood—Major Logan will guide the party and point out the objects. Let them take three days provision if possible. The party will march as speedily as possible, as one of...