1To George Washington from Major General William Heath, 21 December 1779 (Washington Papers)
I was yesterday honored with yours of the 13th and 17th Instant and altho your Excellency did not think your self authorised to give direction in the Instances in which I requested it, I beg you will be pleased to accept my thanks for so fully Expressing Your Sentiments, on the case of Majors Hull and Cogswell I am writing the General Assembly of Massachusetts on the Subject, no endeavours of...