1From George Washington to Brigadier General Francis Nash, 21 August 1777 (Washington Papers)
You are to hold the Brigade under your command, in readiness to March early on Friday Morng next by the Route of Princeton —You will not begin to March untill you hear further from me. I am &ca Df , in John Fitzgerald’s writing, DLC:GW ; Varick transcript , DLC:GW . The following day was a Friday. Nash’s brigade was stationed at Trenton.