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To George Washington from Major General John Sullivan, 3 October 1778

From Major General John Sullivan

Providence October the 3d 1778

My Dear Genl

I can give you no Information from this Quarter Save that Amiral Biron in the Ninety Gun Ship Accompanied by the Seventy four Left Newport Sunday Last, they had Genl Pigot on Board. Lord Howe in a fifty Gun Ship came to Newport & on Monday Sailed for England1 Genl Pigot by Letter Informed me that his private affairs called him to Europe & that my Correspondence must be with General Prescott in Future.2 Desertions from the Enemy are very Frequent on the 30th ultimo a Searjent Corporal & Six privates Came out & They are Daily coming in Lesser Numbers. There Seems to be Every appearance of the Enemys Remaining here through the winter They have pulled Down a Number of Houses with which they are Building Barracks—on the north part of the Island I have the honor to Inclose your Excellencey a Gazette of this Day3 & have the Honor to be most Respectfully your Excellenceys obedt & very Humble Servt

Jno. Sullivan

ALS, DLC:GW.

1. Vice Adm. John Byron sailed from Newport for New York on Monday, 28 Sept., in the 90-gun Princess Royal accompanied by the 74-gun Culloden and the 20-gun Gallatea (see Mackenzie Diary description begins Diary of Frederick Mackenzie Giving a Daily Narrative of His Military Service as an Officer of the Regiment of Royal Welch Fusiliers during the Years 1775–1781 in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New York. 2 vols. Cambridge, Mass., 1930. description ends , 2:399). Admiral Howe sailed from Newport for England on Saturday, 26 Sept., in the 64-gun Eagle (see Mackenzie Diary description begins Diary of Frederick Mackenzie Giving a Daily Narrative of His Military Service as an Officer of the Regiment of Royal Welch Fusiliers during the Years 1775–1781 in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New York. 2 vols. Cambridge, Mass., 1930. description ends , 2:398).

2. See Maj. Gen. Robert Pigot to Sullivan, 27 Sept., in Hammond, Sullivan Papers description begins Otis G. Hammond, ed. Letters and Papers of Major-General John Sullivan, Continental Army. 3 vols. Concord, 1930-39. In Collections of the New Hampshire Historical Society, vols. 13–15. description ends , 2:368.

3. Sullivan apparently enclosed a copy of the Providence Gazette; and Country Journal of this date.

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