1To George Washington from Jeremiah Powell, 21 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
By reports, it appears that, there is a great prospect that the Enemy are about to evacuate N. York—should that event take place it would be no damage to the United States, and a great gratification to the Army as well as to particular States, to have the troops cantooned out in the several States in which they were raised. And it being indispensibly necessary to have troops posted in and near...