From George Washington to Major General Stirling, 7 October 1778
To Major General Stirling
Head Quarters [Fishkill] 7th October 1778.
My Lord.
By an act of Congress dated the 30th Ulto Genl Pulaskis Corps and all the Continental troops in the vicinity of Philadelphia are ordered to Princeton there to wait my orders or those of the Commanding Officer in Jersey1—I leave it to Your Lordship to give them such instructions for their government as may appear to you most proper. I am Your Lordships most obedt Servt
Go: Washington
p.s. Such Detachments of Corps as may be there—you will order to join them, as soon as the Service they are on will admit—and to be properly conducted.
LS, in John Laurens’s writing, NHpR; Df, in John Laurens’s writing, DLC:GW; Varick transcript, DLC:GW. The draft and the Varick transcript are dated 8 October.
1. For this resolution, a copy of which Henry Laurens had enclosed in his letter to GW of 2 Oct., see , 12:969. Gov. William Livingston had written Stirling on 6 Oct. to inform him that on 5 Oct. Congress had changed Pulaski’s orders by directing him to march to Little Egg Harbor, N.J., to assist in the defense against a British incursion there ( , 2:457; see also , 12:983–84).