From George Washington to Colonel Theodorick Bland, 24 July 1777

To Colonel Theodorick Bland

Camp at Ramapaugh [N.J.] July the 24th 1777

Sir

The Enemy’s Fleet having left Sandy Hook and gone to Sea, you are requested to proceed forthwith with the Regiment under your Command to the City of Philadelphia and Receive directions from the Commanding Officer there. You will take no Heavy Baggage with you, but leave it to follow under the Care of an Officer & proper Guard. I am Sir Yr Most Ot Servant

G.W.

Df, in George Lewis’s writing, DLC:GW; Varick transcript, DLC:GW. Col. Stephen Moylan apparently transmitted this letter to Bland on 25 July (see Moylan to Bland, 25 July, in Campbell, Bland Papers description begins Charles Campbell, ed. The Bland Papers: Being a Selection from the Manuscripts of Colonel Theodorick Bland, Jr., of Prince George County, Virginia. 2 vols. Petersburg, Va., 1840-43. description ends , 61–62).

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Title: From George Washington to Colonel Theodorick Bland, 24 July 1777
Author: Washington, George
Recipient: Bland, Theodorick
Date: 24 July 1777

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Cite as: “From George Washington to Colonel Theodorick Bland, 24 July 1777,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-10-02-0374. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 10, 11 June 1777 – 18 August 1777, ed. Frank E. Grizzard, Jr. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000, p. 382.]

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