Alexander Hamilton Papers

Alexander Hamilton to Major General Nathanael Greene, [31 May 1779]

To Major General Nathanael Greene [redated]

[Middlebrook, New Jersey, May 31, 1779]

Dr Sir,

The General requests you will send some discreet person to Brunswick to ascertain the No of Boats in the River. A countryman that is judicious & trusty would give less suspicion than an officer. It should if possible be a person acquainted with the place. His inquiries will be the more easily accepted. The more hurry & dispatch the better.

DS   Yr obt Serv

AH   Aide De Camp

Middlebrook
Mar 31. 1779

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    Alexander Hamilton to Major General Nathanael Greene, [31 May 1779] [redated]
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    Hamilton, Alexander
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    Greene, Nathanael
    Date
    31 May 1779

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    “Alexander Hamilton to Major General Nathanael Greene, [31 May 1779] [redated],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-02-02-9001. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 2, 1779–1781, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1961, pp. 25–26.]

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