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From George Washington to Samuel Huntington, 31 May 1780

To Samuel Huntington

Head Quarters Morris Town 31st May 1780

Sir

I am sorry that I am under the necessity of transmitting the inclosed Gazette extraordinary to your Excellency, by which it appears that Charles town surrendered to the Enemy on the 12th Instant1—You probably will, by the time this reaches you, have received a confirmation of this unfortunate event, directly from Carolina.2 I have the honor to be with the greatest Respect Yr Excellency’s Most obt and humble Servt

Go: Washington

LS, in Tench Tilghman’s writing, DNA:PCC, item 152; Df, DLC:GW; copy, DNA:PCC, item 169; Varick transcript, DLC:GW. Congress read this letter on 5 June (JCC description begins Worthington Chauncey Ford et al., eds. Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789. 34 vols. Washington, D.C., 1904–37. description ends , 17:486).

1. GW enclosed a copy of the extraordinary issue of The Royal Gazette (New York) published on 29 May (see Elias Dayton to GW, 30 May, and n.1). For the surrender at Charleston, S.C., see Duportail to GW, 17 May, and n.1.

2. Official dispatches on the surrender arrived in Philadelphia on 14 June (see Huntington to GW, 15 June).

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    “From George Washington to Samuel Huntington, 31 May 1780,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-26-02-0178. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 26, 13 May–4 July 1780, ed. Benjamin L. Huggins and Adrina Garbooshian-Huggins. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2018, p. 271.]

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