George Washington Papers

To George Washington from Major General Artemas Ward, 12 May 1776

From Major General Artemas Ward

Boston, 12 May 1776. “The Bearer has this moment arrived with some accounts from England, I have directed the Asst Q. M. Genl to furnish him with a Horse and money to carry him to New York, which Horse he is to deliver to the Q. M. Genl at New York.”1

LS, PHi: Dreer Collection; LB, MHi: Ward Papers.

1. The bearer was undoubtedly George Merchant who arrived at GW’s headquarters with his intelligence on 18 May. See John Langdon to GW, 10 May, and GW to Hancock, 18 May 1776.

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    To George Washington from Major General Artemas Ward, 12 May 1776
    Author
    Ward, Artemas
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    Washington, George
    Date
    12 May 1776

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    “To George Washington from Major General Artemas Ward, 12 May 1776,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-04-02-0222. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 4, 1 April 1776 – 15 June 1776, ed. Philander D. Chase. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1991, p. 284.]

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