From George Washington to Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, 16 September 1782
Head Quarters
16h Sepr 1782
Sir
Agreeable to your Excellency’s request I have written to Governor Hancock to call out the Militia in the neighbourhood of Boston should the enemy threaten the Fleet under the command of the Marquis de Vaudreuil. I have the honor to be most sincerely yr Excellency’s obt and hble servt.
DLC: Papers of George Washington.