To George Washington from Brigadier General Thomas Mifflin, 3 August 1776

From Brigadier General Thomas Mifflin

8 OClock Mount Washington [N.Y.]
August 3rd 1776.

My dear general

By an Express from Col. Tupper I am informd that two of his Captains have been up to reconnoitre the Ships. The Phœnix is fast aground1—The Rose ¾ of a Mile on this Side of her—The Gallies are under Way & will probably begin their Attack at 11 OClock as the Ships are not more than 12 Miles from them.2 I am Sir your Servt

Tho. Mifflin

ALS, MH: Dearborn Collection.

1. The Phoenix “grounded on a flat off of Tarry Town, at 2 PM” on 2 Aug., but the crew freed the ship at 10 P.M. (Journal of H.M.S. Phoenix, Captain Hyde Parker, Jr., 2 Aug., in Clark and Morgan, Naval Documents description begins William Bell Clark et al., eds. Naval Documents of the American Revolution. 12 vols. to date. Washington, D.C., 1964–. description ends , 6:19–20).

2. See Benjamin Tupper to GW, this date.

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Title: To George Washington from Brigadier General Thomas Mifflin, 3 August 1776
Author: Mifflin, Thomas
Recipient: Washington, George
Date: 3 August 1776

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Cite as: “To George Washington from Brigadier General Thomas Mifflin, 3 August 1776,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-05-02-0417. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 5, 16 June 1776 – 12 August 1776, ed. Philander D. Chase. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993, p. 552.]

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