Benjamin Franklin Papers

To Benjamin Franklin from Henry Hugh Fergusson, [26 December? 1776]

From Henry Hugh Fergusson

ALS: American Philosophical Society

[December 26?, 177610]

An Express arrived last night to Lord Stormont with an account of a defeat of the americans, the English said to have lost 200 men, to have taken 74 pieces of Cannon and at the time the news came off a party of the Americans consisting of 1400 said to be surrounded in fort Washington.

H. Fergusson

The affair said to have happened the 24 octor.

Addressed: Doctor Franklin

Notation: Ferguson

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

10. On Dec. 20 Lord Weymouth sent Stormont the news that the Americans had abandoned their lines at Kings Bridge; on Dec. 25 the Ambassador acknowledged the letter: Stevens, Facsimiles, XIV, nos. 1398, 1401. Although Weymouth did not mention Fort Washington, the arrival of his dispatch must have precipitated this note.

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    To Benjamin Franklin from Henry Hugh Fergusson, [26 December? 1776]
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    Fergusson, Henry Hugh
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    Franklin, Benjamin
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    26 December 1776

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    “To Benjamin Franklin from Henry Hugh Fergusson, [26 December? 1776],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-23-02-0046. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 23, October 27, 1776, through April 30, 1777, ed. William B. Willcox. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1983, pp. 88–89.]

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