To George Washington from Brigadier General Jedediah Huntington, 26 June 1780
From Brigadier General Jedediah Huntington
near suffrans [N.Y.] one Clock A.M.
26 June [1780]
Dear Sir,
just recd this by one of the Persons employed to gain Intelligence ’tis the only Information I have had of the Matter1—shall hear again in the Morning—my Baggage is in Train to enter the Clove. I am &c.
J. Huntington
ALS, DLC:GW. This letter is written on the verso of Capt. Thomas Blanch’s letter to Huntington of 25 June (see n.1).
1. Blanch’s letter to Huntington, dated 25 June at Closter, N.J., reads: “at four oClock in the afternoo⟨n⟩ The fleet Laid at anchor oppersit Philips Where thay Landed abut Three Thousand Men as neer as I Could Judge I Saw them March up towar⟨d⟩ Tokeho [Tuckahoe] the fleet Consist of Bet[w]een fifty or Sixty Vessels two frigates and the Other Cheafly Transports High Water about Seven OClock this afternoon. … N.B. if you Chuse to Send to me I Can Let you Know almost Every Hour in the Day About there Movement⟨s⟩ In the River oppersi⟨t⟩ Cloester” (DLC:GW). For the enemy troops landed at Philipse Manor, N.Y., see , 233–34; see also Battle of Springfield, 23–24 June, editorial note; Henry Willis to GW, 24 June; and Nathanael Greene to GW, 25 June (second letter).