1From George Washington to the Continental Congress Executive Committee, 3 March 1777 (Washington Papers)
I was honoured to day with your Letter of the 29th Ulto with the dispatches from Congress which you were pleased to transmit. Very opportunely, a Return Express was just setting out for the Eastward when they came, by whom I forwarded the Letter for the Convention of New York to the care of Genl McDougal. I think it probable, that the Ships of War, which were in Chesepeak Bay, are coming to...