Letter (text in the hand of aide-de-camp Tench Tilghman) signed (“Go. Washington”), as commander-in-chief of the American Army, to General David Forman, Head Quarters, Bergen County, 4 September 1780; additionally signed by Washington on the address leaf, on the verso of an otherwise blank integral leaf.
Head Quarters, Bergen County, (NJ): 1780. Folio, one page, approximately 125 words, in part: “I perceive … that you had collected about two hundred Cattle more, and that a further number might be obtained … I cannot of right command the services of the militia … let the commanding officers..... More