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From George Washington to Samuel Huntington, 13 May 1780

To Samuel Huntington

Head Quarters Morris Town 13th May 1780

Sir

I have been honored with your Excellency’s favor of the 9th instant.

I yesterday received the inclosed intelligence, which corresponds with other accounts from different quarters.1 Whether their fears in New York are well grounded a little time must discover. I have the honor to be with great Respect Sir Yr Excellency’s most obt and humble Servt

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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 15 May (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 , 17:427).

1. GW’s aide-de-camp Tench Tilghman prepared the enclosed “Extract of intelligence from New York” from Maj. Gen. Robert Howe’s letter to GW of 11 May. The extract omitted Lafayette’s departure from France and intelligence regarding British efforts to deploy inhabitants to construct fortifications in New York City.

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    From George Washington to Samuel Huntington, 13 May 1780
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    13 May 1780

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    “From George Washington to Samuel Huntington, 13 May 1780,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-26-02-0008. [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. 12.]

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