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To George Washington from Samuel Huntington, 15 June 1780

From Samuel Huntington

Philadelphia June 15. 1780

Sir,

Your Excellency will receive enclosed an Act of Congress of the 12th Instant, containing Instructions to the Committee at Head Quarters respecting the Issues of Forage and Provisions.1

Also another Act of the 14th Instant relating to Genl Gates his Command in the southern Department.2

The last Evening Colo. Ternant arrived with Despatches from Genl Lincoln containing a particular Account of the Siege and Surrender of Charles Town, which will soon be forwarded to your Excellency.3

General Lincoln is daily expected here in Person.4 I have the Honour to be with the highest respect & Esteem your Excelly’s most hbble servt

Sam. Huntington President

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

1. Huntington enclosed a congressional resolution dated 12 June: “Resolved, That the Committee at Head quarters be instructed immediately to give orders for stopping all issues of provisions & Forage; except to the Army and Militia in actual service and such persons as are attached to the Military in Camp or on March under such particular exceptions only as they on advising with the Commander in Chief may Judge absolutely indispensible.

“That the value of a ration be settled by the Board of War and allowed in Money, to such as are now entitled to draw from the public stores and may be precluded for the future in consequence of such Orders” (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 , 17:503).

2. The enclosed congressional resolution of 14 June authorized Maj. Gen. Horatio Gates, the new southern department commander, to call for militia and supplies from Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. The resolution also empowered Gates to appoint staff officers and act “as he shall think most proper” (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 , 17:510–11).

3. Maj. Gen. Benjamin Lincoln’s letter to Huntington is dated 24 May (DNA:PCC, item 158). No evidence has been found of its being forwarded to GW. Lincoln provided a detailed report on operations preceding his surrender when he wrote privately to GW on 11 Aug. (DLC:GW; see also Lincoln to GW, 25 June, found at Huntington to GW, that date, n.2).

4. For Lincoln’s arrival in Philadelphia, see his two letters to Huntington, 22 June, in DNA:PCC, item 158.

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    “To George Washington from Samuel Huntington, 15 June 1780,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-26-02-0296. [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, pp. 425–426.]

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