1From George Washington to William Burnet, Sr., 10 May 1782 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 12th of April was long on its passage to me—I have endeavoured to recollect every circumstance respecting my employing ---- Hatfield for the purpose of obtaining intelligence, while the Enemy were at Elizabeth Town in the spring of 1780. what follows is the result. The Morning after I marchd the Troops from their Hutts near Morris Town, to oppose the advance of the enemy; &...