From Alexander Hamilton to Brigadier General James Clinton, 11 September 1780
To Brigadier General James Clinton
[Bergen County, New Jersey] September 11, 1780. “His Excellency desires you will furnish from your Brigade a subaltern for the Company of light infantry in Col Cortland’s1 regiment.”
ALS, MS Division, New York Public Library.
1. Colonel Philip Van Cortlandt, Second New York Regiment.