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To George Washington from Samuel Huntington, 13 June 1780

From Samuel Huntington

Philadelphia June 13. 1780

sir,

By the Act of Congress of this Day herewith enclosed your Excellency will be informed that Genl Gates is ordered to take the Command in the southern Department.1

This Order is in Consequence of Intelligence received via New York, that Charles Town surrendered the 12th Ulto, and the Garrison are made Prisoners. This Intelligence in Rivington’s Paper containing the Articles of Capitulation, your Excellency must doubtless have received before this Time.2 I have the Honour to be with very great respect & Esteem your Excelly’s most hbble servant

Sam. Huntington President

LS, DLC:GW; LB, DNA:PCC, item 15.

1. The enclosed copy of the congressional resolution of this date reads: “Resolved unanimously that major genl Gates immediately repair to and take command in the southern department” (DLC:GW; see also 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 , 17:508).

2. GW had this information on 11 June (see the postscript to his letter of that date to the Committee at Headquarters, and n.6).

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    “To George Washington from Samuel Huntington, 13 June 1780,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-26-02-0286. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 26, 13 May–4 July 1780, ed. Benjamin L. Huggins and Adrina Garbooshian-Huggins. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2018, p. 416.]

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