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To George Washington from Brigadier General Charles Scott, 15 September 1778

From Brigadier General Charles Scott

½ past 7 Sept. 15th 1778

Sir

I this moment recd Intelligence By two Gentlemen from Colo. Gist, that there Are a large partee of the enemy, out on the Albany road about a mile below Phillaps’s Hous and advancing they also inform that a Partee was Seen Going towards Volintins Hill1 Every Possable Care Shall be taken to git Their Design and be immediatly Transmited. I am Your Excellencys Obt Servant

Chs Scott

p.s. Majr Lee was at Delancees Hous today and Very Near taking a Genl & Several Field officers Who had Just Din’d and left the table with the plats on.

ALS, DLC:GW.

1. The Philipse manor house is on the east bank of the Hudson River (a few hundred yards inland) in present-day downtown Yonkers, N.Y., about fifteen miles southeast of White Plains. Valentine’s Hill was about two miles southeast of the manor house.

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    To George Washington from Brigadier General Charles Scott, 15 September 1778
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    15 September 1778

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    “To George Washington from Brigadier General Charles Scott, 15 September 1778,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-17-02-0016. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 17, 15 September–31 October 1778, ed. Philander D. Chase. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008, pp. 15–16.]

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