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- GLC#
- GLC02437.09400-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- March 30, 1782
- Author/Creator
- Washington, George, 1732-1799
- Title
- to Henry Knox
- Place Written
- Pompton Lakes, New Jersey
- Pagination
- 1 p. : address : docket Height: 31.7 cm, Width: 19.7 cm
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
General Washington discusses a "character" (possibly Loyalist Henry Van Schaack) present with Knox in Elizabethtown, New Jersey. Instructs Knox to guard his colleague (possibly Gouverneur Morris) against freely discussing matters with this person, believing him to be a traitor to America, in pay of the British. Written from "York Hutts," which constituted the headquarters of a New York Regiment near Pompton (now Pompton Lakes, New Jersey). Docketed in Knox's hand.
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