Letter, from General Wooster

Containers:
Box 18, Folder 1777.03.01
Creator:
Wooster, David, 1711-1777
Scope and content:

Can't persuade troops to remain at New Rochelle in face of superior forces--troops not enlisting, army weak--few [English] troops left in New York--he holds two men who ran off to British, then came back to help a widow escape to New York.

Language:
English .

Access and use

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The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
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