Alexander Hamilton Papers

George Washington to the Committee of Cooperation, 24 May 1780

George Washington to the Committee of Cooperation1

Morristown [New Jersey] May 24, 1780. Asks Committee to examine its powers to find if “they will enable you as far as is practicable in our circumstances, to draw forth the resources of the Country.”

Df, in writing of H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.

1. This committee from Congress consisted of Philip Schuyler of New York, John Mathews of South Carolina, and Nathaniel Peabody of New Hampshire.

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    George Washington to the Committee of Cooperation, 24 May 1780
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    Washington, George
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    Committee of Cooperation
    Date
    24 May 1780

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    “George Washington to the Committee of Cooperation, 24 May 1780,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-02-02-0684. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 2, 1779–1781, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1961, p. 330.]

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