Circular to New England State Executives, 17 April 1781
Circular to New England State Executives
Head Quarters New Windsor April 17th 1781
Dear Sir
By the Letter from the Quarter Master General, transmitted herewith, Your Excellency will be pleased to observe the necessity of furnishing the Camp Equipage specifyed in the estimate for the Troops of Your State, as also the reason why this application was not made at an earlier period.1
Every other effort for a supply having failed of success, this is the last resource now remaining—And I have only to add, my earnest wishes, that this2 may not disappoint our expectations. With great esteem & respect I have the honor to be Your Excellency’s Most Obedient Servant
Go: Washington
LS, in David Humphreys’s writing, addressed to Connecticut governor Jonathan Trumbull, Sr., Ct: Trumbull Papers; LS, in Humphreys’s writing, addressed to New Hampshire council president Meshech Weare, Nh-Ar: Weare Papers; Df, DLC:GW; Varick transcript, DLC:GW. The docket of the LS addressed to Trumbull reads: “recd ⅌ Post—23d inst.” The draft also is addressed to Rhode Island governor William Greene and Massachusetts governor John Hancock.
For a reply, see Trumbull to GW, 27 April; see also Benjamin Lincoln to GW, 3 May, and n.1 to that document.
1. The letter from Q.M. Gen. Timothy Pickering has not been identified, but for its likely basis, see Pickering to GW, 14 April.
2. This word is not underlined in any other version of this letter.