1To George Washington from Phebe Baldwin, 30 August 1790 (Washington Papers)
Be not Surprized at the address of a Woman, for ’tis with a trembling hand that She attempts this presumtion. ’Tis a Woman oppress’d with the Strongest grief, & anxiety for the futer Support of her helpless Infants—I am the Wife of an unhappy Man Who had the honour of bearing the Rank of Capt., under your immediate Command, was wounded at the Battle of german-town, by which means he lost his...