George Washington to Major Lemuel Trescott, 9 May 1780
George Washington to Major Lemuel Trescott1
Morristown [New Jersey] May 9, 1780. Gives Trescott permission to “ascertain the strength of the party at Bull’s ferry and to make an attempt upon it.”
Df, in writing of H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
1. Trescott was a major of Colonel Henry Jackson’s Additional Continental Regiment.