1To George Washington from David Forman, 1 September 1781 (Washington Papers)
I am accidently this minute Informed by a person from the Sea shoar about 25 Miles to the Southward of Shrewsberry that he saw the British Fleet Saturday Morning Standing to the Southward—But so far off to Sea as only to observe what he supposed the war —Had they Stood to the Eastward with the Winds at North as we suppose it was all Night they would have been out of sight from every part of...