To George Washington from Brigadier General Jedediah Huntington, 24 April 1780
From Brigadier General Jedediah Huntington
Springfield [N.J.] 24th April 1780
half after One A.M.
Dear sir,
I have this hour recd a Line from the Command at Newark that a Body of Enemy are out at Paramus—Numbers not known—they are also (I this Moment hear by Major Lenox) out at Halstead Point Elisabeth Town I have no Express from thence nor hear any Firing therefore conclude the last Party small—I am &c.
J. Huntington
ALS, DLC:GW. GW’s secretary Robert Hanson Harrison docketed this letter “ansd 24,” but no letter from GW to Huntington on this date has been found.
Huntington again wrote GW from Springfield on 26 April: “Capt. Betts at Newark who gave me the Information of the Enemys being out at Paramus wrote me last Evening that he had been misinformed—that he finds they have been no nearer that Place than Closter and is not certain that they landed there” (ALS, DLC:GW).