From George Washington to Nathaniel Woodhull, 24 October 1775

To Nathaniel Woodhull

Camp at Cambridge October 24th 1775

Sir

Your Favour of the 12th Instant I duly received, and thank you for inclosing Captain Thompsons Information. The Contents of the Deposition, now transmitted to you, are of such a Nature, that I thought, no Time should be lost in giving you the earliest Notice of them.1 I am Sir yr mo. obt Servt

Go. W.

LB, in Edmund Randolph’s writing, DLC:GW; Varick transcript, DLC:GW. Some member of GW’s staff apparently interchanged the addresses on the final copies of this letter and GW’s letter to Jonathan Trumbull, Sr., of this date. Trumbull received the letter intended for Woodhull, and Woodhull got the one meant for Trumbull. See N.Y. Prov. Congress Journals, 2:3 description begins Journals of the Provincial Congress, Provincial Convention, Committee of Safety, and Council of Safety of the State of New-York, 1775–1776–1777. 2 vols. Albany, 1842. (Microfilm Collection of Early State Records). description ends , and GW to Nicholas Cooke and Jonathan Trumbull, Sr., this date, source note.

1. See Deposition of Pearson Jones, this date, enclosed in GW to Hancock, this date.

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Title: From George Washington to Nathaniel Woodhull, 24 October 1775
Author: Washington, George
Recipient: Woodhull, Nathaniel
Date: 24 October 1775

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Cite as: “From George Washington to Nathaniel Woodhull, 24 October 1775,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-02-02-0213. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 2, 16 September 1775 – 31 December 1775, ed. Philander D. Chase. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1987, pp. 231–232.]

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