1To George Washington from Major General Joseph Spencer, 30 April 1777 (Washington Papers)
Opportunity presenting, I readily improve it, to write by the Bearer who is Colonel Michael Fabricy a Kováts—A Gentleman from the Prussian Service, bound on a Tour to Visit your Excellency; though I have at the present, not much to write about—yet conclude it to be my Duty to Inform as nearly as may be of the State of the Enemy’s Army in this State, as well as Our own. Within a few Weeks past,...
2To George Washington from Major General Joseph Spencer, 14 April 1777 (Washington Papers)
I have rec’d your Excellency’s Letter of the 3d of April instant, and in Answer thereto take Liberty to observe, that by the late Appearances there is no probability that the Enemy will soon evacuate Rhode Island, as your Excellency has apprehended and as we have heretofore generally expected in these parts: the Ships that were haul’d off when I wrote last, being thirty three Square rigg’d...