1George Washington to Colonel John Cox, 4 October 1779 (Hamilton Papers)
West Point, October 4, 1779. Orders Cox to keep a fleet of fast sailing boats off the Jersey shore to carry dispatches from Headquarters to D’Estaing. Df , in writing of H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. Cox was assistant quartermaster general.
2From George Washington to Joseph Reed or Colonel John Cox, 7 April 1777 (Washington Papers)
I am informed, there is a certain Mr Smith, who has been lately taken up by General Lincoln as a spy & sent to Philadelphia under that character. I believe for several reasons that he is the man who was imployed by you to act for Us, in that capacity, and that the apprehending him is a mistake, which may be attended with ill-consequences. Lest he should be precipitately tried and punished, I...