Df, in Alexander Hamilton’s writing, DLC:GW; Varick transcript, DLC:GW.

GW also wrote Capt. Judah Alden from headquarters on this date: “You will send a trusty Non Commissioned officer and four men with the inclosed letter to Capt. Humphries, who is with General Starke and a body of troops at the White plains—You will send them across the River immediately on receipt of this and order them to make all diligence. They will return by Kings ferry” (Df, in Alexander Hamilton’s writing; Varick transcript, DLC:GW; Hamilton first wrote “two men” on the draft but struck out those words and wrote “four men” above the line; he docketed the draft with Alden’s name and Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.).

GW wrote Col. Stephen Moylan from headquarters on the same date: “Circumstances render the command upon which you were ordered unneccessary—You will therefore dismiss the party—sending off the inclosed by trusty and well mounted Dragoons—That to Capt. Alden at Dobbs ferry requires particular dispatch. I shall expect your Company at dinner” (Df, in Tench Tilghman’s writing, DLC:GW; Varick transcript, DLC:GW; see also Documents VI, XV, XVII, and XIX).