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To George Washington from Major Lemuel Trescott, 14 May 1780

From Major Lemuel Trescott

Paramus [N.J.] May 14 [1780] 11. oClock P.M.

Sir

I have this moment receved Intelliegence from Captn Ward1 (at Hackingsack) by Express that the Enemies Shipping are Comning up the North River, they were he Says at Fort Lee or oposite this afternoon I thought it my Duty to Give Your Excellency the Earleyest Intelligence of a matter of So much Consequence.2 I am Your Excellencies most Obedient & very Humble Servt

Lem. Trescott Major Comdt Detachment

ALS, DLC:GW. The letter is docketed 1780.

1. On 3 April the New Jersey Privy Council ordered Capt. Peter Ward from the Bergen County militia light horse to “Command the whole Guard”—consisting of militia from Sussex, Somerset, and Bergen counties—to “Rendezvous at or near Hackensack” for the protection of Bergen County (Bernstein, N.J. Privy Council Minutes description begins David A. Bernstein, ed. Minutes of the Governor’s Privy Council, 1777–1789. Trenton, 1974. In New Jersey Archives, 3d ser., vol. 1. description ends , 150).

Peter Ward (1755–1812) served as captain in a battalion of New Jersey state troops during 1781 and 1782. After the war, he represented Bergen County in the state legislature and legislative council for several years.

2. For similar reports of enemy ship and troop movements near Fort Lee, N.J., and on the Hudson and Hackensack rivers, see Elias Dayton to GW, 15 May, and n.5; and Dayton to GW, 19 May, n.2; see also GW to Robert Howe, 15 May, and Prechtel, Diary description begins Johann Ernst Prechtel. A Hessian Officer’s Diary of the American Revolution. Translated and edited by Bruce E. Burgoyne. Bowie, Md., 1994. description ends , 178.

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    “To George Washington from Major Lemuel Trescott, 14 May 1780,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-26-02-0017. [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. 20.]

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