21From George Washington to Thomas Sim Lee, 5 November 1782 (Washington Papers)
I must request your Excellency to make it a Rule in future, when persons apply for Liberty to go to or within the Enemy’s Lines, to insert in your Passports, that they shall repair to Dobbs’s Ferry, which is the only Post from whence Flags are sent or at which they are received. This is absolutely necessary to prevent that illegal Intercourse & Traffic which are now carried to so great a...
22From George Washington to Louis-Philippe de Rigaud, marquis de Vaudreuil, 5 November 1782 (Washington Papers)
I do myself the honor to transmit you the substance From Mosir Talmadge’s intelligence of the 3d March—of the latest intelligence which I have received from New York—Should I gain more particular information of the destination of the enemy’s ships of War I shall immediately communicate it. I have the Honor to be &c. DLC : Papers of George Washington.