George Washington Papers
Documents filtered by: Volume="Washington-03-01"
sorted by: date (descending)
Permanent link for this document:
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-01-02-0333

To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Loammi Baldwin, 9 September 1775

From Lieutenant Colonel Loammi Baldwin

Cheelsea [Mass.] Sept. 9th 1775

May it Please your Execellency

I Returnd to my post yesterday after Settleing cheaf of my affairs & found all Well. The Bearer of this will Conduct to your Excellency a Person who Says he was Servant to General How. he came on to Noddles Island from there, he waded as far into the water as he could toward our guard at Winnisimmitt ferry, & Calld to our Guard to Come & fetch him over which they did & conducted him to me & thought it my duty to Send him to your Excellency.

Inclosd are the Observations that have not been Sent before.1 I am with all Respect your Excellencys most Obedent & Very Humble Servt

Loammi Baldwin Lt Colo.

ALS, DLC:GW.

1. The enclosures apparently included Joseph Leach’s returns of observations for 2, 5, and 6 Sept., all of which are in DLC:GW.

Index Entries

    You Are Looking At

    Source Project
    Washington Papers
    Title
    To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Loammi Baldwin, 9 September 1775
    Author
    Baldwin, Loammi
    Recipient
    Washington, George
    Date
    9 September 1775

    Reference

    Cite as
    “To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Loammi Baldwin, 9 September 1775,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-01-02-0333. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 1, 16 June 1775 – 15 September 1775, ed. Philander D. Chase. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1985, p. 439.]

    More between these correspondents