Alexander Hamilton to Colonel Hugh Hughes, 27 February 1781
To Colonel Hugh Hughes
[New Windsor, New York] February 27, 1781. “I thank you for the Trouble you have taken about the Horses.1 Our Journey is postpon’d, but is Still in Contemplation.2 When we do set out I shall be obliged to depend on the Public for Horses, as mine were so low that I do not intend to bring them from above3 ’till near the opening of the Campaign.…”
LC, New-York Historical Society, New York City.
1. See Hughes to H, February 16, 1781 (printed in this volume).
2. See George Washington to President of Congress, February 26, 1781 (, XXI, 300–02).
3. See H to Timothy Pickering, February 9, 1781 (printed in this volume).

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