1From George Washington to Lieutenant Colonels Bezaleel Beebe and Levi Wells, 1 August 1780 (Washington Papers)
I am to desire you will be pleased to put the Regiment under your Command immediately in Motion—You will proceed by the shortest route to join the main Army in the neighbourhood of the White Plains, or wherever it may be: of which you cannot fail to have early information. I have also to entreat the Regiment will march with as little Baggage as possible; as the whole Army have divested itself...
2George Washington to Lieutenant Colonel Levi Wells, 2 September 1780 (Hamilton Papers)
Bergen County [ New Jersey ] September 2, 1780 . Orders Wells to join Colonel Elisha Sheldon in vicinity of North Castle. Df , in writings of Richard Kidder Meade and H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. Wells was a lieutenant colonel in the Connecticut Militia.