1From George Washington to Colonel Thomas Tash, 13 October 1776 (Washington Papers)
Since I wrote you by Lt Colo. Welch upon the Subject of fixing on Quarters for your Troops, I have received from the Committee of Safety for this State such an Account of its alarming Situation owing to the numbers of disaffected, together with the little Confidence that can be placed on the Militia of some of the Counties, that I find it necessary to order a part of the New Hampshire Troops...