From Alexander Hamilton to Elias Boudinot, [18 June 1778]
To Elias Boudinot
[Valley Forge, June 18, 1778]
Dr Sir
The General has received your Billet per horseman.1 He thanks you for your intelligence and begs you will continue to advise him of what passes. If the enemy are really gone, try to get some of the inhabitants, on whom, you can depend to pass the Delaware, to watch their motions and convey intelligence.
Caution should be used by you all in entering the city, before you are very certain how matters stand.
Yrs
Alex Hamilton
Hd. Qrs.
June 18th. 1778
ALS, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston.
1. On June 18, 1778, Boudinot wrote to Washington concerning the route of the British through New Jersey (George Washington Papers, Library of Congress).