From George Washington to Major Evan Edwards, 11 November 1779

To Major Evan Edwards

Head Quars West Point November 11th 1779

Dear Sir,

Capt. Bush will deliver you 20,000 dollars on Acct of the Gratuity of 100 dollars each allowed by Congress to those Men who were inlisted for the War previous to 23d Jany last1 inclosed you have the form of the Receipt to be taken.2 I suppose the general tenor of the inlistments of the Men of the 11th Regt will be Three Years or during the War. This was the case throughout the Penna line, but the Men were told that as the term of inlistmen[t] was not fully ascertained they would not be discha[r]ged at the expiration of three years; but in consideration of their having recd a small Bounty—Congress had been pleased to allow them a Gratuity of 100 dollars. I am Dear Sir Your most obt Servt.

Df, in George Augustine Washington’s writing, DLC:GW; Varick transcript, DLC:GW.

1. Capt. George Bush conveyed money that Congress had authorized on 22 June (see 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 14:758, and General Orders, 8 July; see also GW to the Board of War, 9 June, and to John Jay, 13 July, and n.8).

2. The enclosed form has not been identified.

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Title: From George Washington to Major Evan Edwards, 11 November 1779
Author: Washington, George
Recipient: Edwards, Evan
Date: 11 November 1779

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Cite as: “From George Washington to Major Evan Edwards, 11 November 1779,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-23-02-0212. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 23, 22 October–31 December 1779, ed. William M. Ferraro. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2015, p. 241.]