Correspondence, 1777-1781 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Correspondence on military matters including twenty-seven letters from George Washington giving orders and news of Washington's own progress in New Jersey, anticipated movements of the British, and the privations of the American troops. Also includes two letters from Richard Platt, McDougall's aide de camp; one from Aaron Burr; one from Samuel Holden Parsons; a copy of a letter from Philemon Dickinson to John Hancock; and an extract from the same letter in the hand of Charles Thomson, secretary of the Continental Congress