To George Washington from Samuel Huntington, 17 November 1780
From Samuel Huntington
Philadelphia November 17. 1780
sir,
I enclose your Excellency Copy of a Letter of the 10. Instant, just received from Governor Jefferson, with the Copy of an intercepted Letter (referred to in the Governors) from General Leslie to Lord Cornwallis; which in some Measure discovers the Designs of the Enemy at the Time they landed in Virginia.1
I have this evening received your Letter of the 14th Instant, and shall immediately forward the Intelligence it contains to the Southern States.2 With every Sentiment of Esteem & respect I am your Excellency’s most obedient & most humble Servant
Sam. Huntington.
LS, DLC:GW; LB, DNA:PCC, item 15. GW acknowledged this letter when he wrote Huntington on 26 November.
1. For these enclosures, which also came directly to GW, see Thomas Jefferson to GW, 10 Nov., source note and n.1; see also Jefferson to Huntington, same date, in , 4:110–11.