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 GW to Nicholas Cooke and Jonathan Trumbull, Sr., this date, source note.
, and1. See Deposition of Pearson Jones, this date, enclosed in GW to Hancock, this date.