To George Washington from Brigadier General David Wooster, 28 September 1775

From Brigadier General David Wooster

Harlem [N.Y.] Sepr 28th 1775

This just serves to inform your Excellency that I return’d to this place from Long Island immediately upon the receipt of your favour of the 2d Instant—& that in pursuance of an Order from the Continental Congress I shall this afternoon embark with all the Troops under my command for Albany there to wait the Orders of General Scuyler.1 I am Sr in haste your Excellency’s most obedt hble Servt

Davd Wooster

LS, DLC:GW.

1. See Hancock to Wooster, 20 Sept. 1775, in Smith, Letters of Delegates description begins Paul H. Smith et al., eds. Letters of Delegates to Congress, 1774–1789. 26 vols. Washington, D.C., 1976–2000. description ends , 2:33–34.

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Title: To George Washington from Brigadier General David Wooster, 28 September 1775
Author: Wooster, David
Recipient: Washington, George
Date: 28 September 1775

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Cite as: “To George Washington from Brigadier General David Wooster, 28 September 1775,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-02-02-0057. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 2, 16 September 1775 – 31 December 1775, ed. Philander D. Chase. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1987, pp. 61–62.]

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