George Washington Papers

To George Washington from the Continental Congress Committee on the Pennsylvania Line, 13 January 1781

From the Continental Congress
Committee on the Pennsylvania Line

Trenton Jany 13th 1781

Sir

I have only time to Inform Your Excy by Colo. Smith that the British Spies have been Executed The Commissioners are now Busy in adjusting the Claims & redressing the Grievances of the Pensylvania Troops and now Trust That Every Danger of Defections is past.1 I have the honor to be most respectfully Your Excys most obedt Servt

by order of the Comte Jno. Sullivan C[hair]m[a]n

ALS, DLC:GW.

1. For the execution of these spies and the appointment of the commissioners, see Continental Congress Committee on the Pennsylvania Line to GW, 10–11 Jan., and n.7.

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    To George Washington from the Continental Congress Committee on the Pennsylvania Line, 13 January 1781
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    Continental Congress Committee on the Pennsylvania Line
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    Washington, George
    Date
    13 January 1781

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    “To George Washington from the Continental Congress Committee on the Pennsylvania Line, 13 January 1781,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-30-02-0127. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 30, 1 January–6 March 1781, ed. Benjamin L. Huggins. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2022, p. 148.]

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