1To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Udny Hay, 12 November 1780 (Washington Papers)
The State of our provisions to the northward during our late alarms there detaind me much longer in that Quarter than I expected, I now however think I may venture to offer in to your Excellency, except in the article of beef, for which we must depend on other States, there is every probability they will during the course of the winter be tolerably supplyd; these alarms having in many...