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From George Washington to Brigadier General Jedediah Huntington, 15 May 1780

To Brigadier General Jedediah Huntington

Head Qrs Morris Town May 15th 1780

Dr Sr

Notwithstanding the Jersey Brigade has moved down in order to relieve your command, I wish you to remain where you are until you hear further from me.1 I am &.

G.W.

P.s. As I have recd intelligence of a movement of the Enemy,2 I beg you will keep the Troops in the most compact order & readiness to march on the shortest notice should circumstances require it. You will be prepared on the score of provision also.3

Df, in Richard Kidder Meade’s writing, DLC:GW; Varick transcript, DLC:GW.

1. See GW to Huntington, 13 May, and n.1. On 18 May, GW wrote Huntington from headquarters: “As my letter requesting your stay below was founded, on the appearance of Vessells with troops on board—going up the Hackingsack River, which I am informed are gon[e] back I have now to desire, if they have returned that you will be pleased to march the division under yr command agreeably to my letter of the 13th, to Camp” (Df, in Richard Kidder Meade’s writing, DLC:GW; Varick transcript, DLC:GW).

2. For these reports of enemy naval activity, see Lemuel Trescott to GW, 14 May; see also Huntington to GW, this date (first letter).

3. Huntington replied to GW from Springfield on this date: “I have Your Excellencys favor of this day and shall attend to the Contents.

“I apprehend the Vessels, gone up Hackinsac, are to take in Wood, and perhaps some Hay” (ALS, DLC:GW). For these movements, see Elias Dayton to GW, this date.

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    “From George Washington to Brigadier General Jedediah Huntington, 15 May 1780,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-26-02-0027. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 26, 13 May–4 July 1780, ed. Benjamin L. Huggins and Adrina Garbooshian-Huggins. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2018, p. 29.]

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