John Adams to Abigail Adams, 2 May 1777

John Adams to Abigail Adams

May 2. 1777

We have promoted Arnold, one Step this day, for his Vigilance, Activity, and Bravery, in the late Affair at Connecticutt.1—We shall make Huntingdon a Brigadier, I hope.2

We shall sleep in a whole Skin for some Time I think in Philadelphia, at least untill a strong Reinforcement arrives.

I want to learn, where Sir William Erskine with his Two Thousand Men, went after his Exploit at Danbury.—Perhaps to Newport.

RC (Adams Papers).

1. See JCC description begins Worthington C. Ford and others, eds., Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789, Washington, 1904–1937; 34 vols. description ends , 7:323.

2. Jedediah Huntington; see same description begins Worthington C. Ford and others, eds., Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789, Washington, 1904–1937; 34 vols. description ends , p. 347 (12 May).

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Title: John Adams to Abigail Adams, 2 May 1777
Author: Adams, John
Recipient: Adams, Abigail
Date: 2 May 1777

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Cite as: “John Adams to Abigail Adams, 2 May 1777,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/04-02-02-0176. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Adams Family Correspondence, vol. 2, June 1776 – March 1778, ed. L. H. Butterfield. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1963, p. 230.]

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