1From George Washington to Brigadier General Samuel Holden Parsons, 26 July 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have been duly favored with your Letter of the 21st Inst. The non arrival of the Arms expected with the french fleet, will occassion a consideral deficiency in that article, and render a supply from the States necessary—I have already made application to Governor Trumbull for two thousand Stand, from the State of Connecticut. It is much to be regretted that the preparations of every kind are...