Alexander Hamilton Papers

From Alexander Hamilton to Colonel Goose Van Schaick, [4 November 1778]

To Colonel Goose Van Schaick

[Fredericksburg, New York, November 4, 1778]

Sir

I have received your favour of Yesterday. His Excellency desires me to inform you, that you are to march Immediately on receiving your Clothing to Fort Schuyler.1 He wishes you to Arrive there as speedily as possible. This you will pleas[e] to communicate to General Clinton2 and Act accordingly.

I am sir Your most Obedient servant

Alex. Hamilton   Aide de Camp

Head Quarters
Novbr. 4th 1778

Copy, MS Division, New York Public Library.

1. Van Schaick had been ordered to Fort Schuyler to relieve Colonel Peter Gansevoort.

2. Brigadier General James Clinton.

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    From Alexander Hamilton to Colonel Goose Van Schaick, [4 November 1778]
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    Hamilton, Alexander
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    Van Schaick, Goose
    Date
    4 November 1778

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    “From Alexander Hamilton to Colonel Goose Van Schaick, [4 November 1778],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-01-02-0638. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 1, 1768–1778, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1961, p. 575.]

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