George Washington Papers

From George Washington to Major General William Heath, 29 October 1780

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To Major General William Heath

Head Quarters Prackness Octr 29th 1780

Dear Sir

I have sent Joshua Smith to West Point to be confined there ’till further Orders, unless the Civil Authority should in the mean time demand him, in which case you will be pleased to deliver him up. I am with great esteem Dear Sir Your Most Obed. Servt

Go: Washington

P.S. I would not wish Smith’s Confinement to be rigorous only secure.1 Be so good as to forward the inclosed Letter to the Governor2 or in his absence to the Lt Governor.3

Go: W——n

LS, in David Humphreys’s writing, MHi: Heath Papers; Df, DLC:GW; Varick transcript, DLC:GW.

1. See Document XVII, and n.2 to that document.

2. The draft, which GW’s aide-de-camp Alexander Hamilton penned, reads “without delay” at this point.

3. See Document XVI.

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    From George Washington to Major General William Heath, 29 October 1780
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    “From George Washington to Major General William Heath, 29 October 1780,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-28-02-0201-0016. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 28, 28 August–27 October 1780, ed. William M. Ferraro and Jeffrey L. Zvengrowski. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2020, p. 429.]

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