Timothy Pickering A.L.S., HeadQrs. Roxboro [i.e., Roxborough, Pa.], August 7, 1777 : to Colo. [Stephen] Moylan, [S.l.]

Timothy Pickering A.L.S., HeadQrs. Roxboro [i.e., Roxborough, Pa.], August 7, 1777 : to Colo. [Stephen] Moylan, [S.l.]

Roxboro [i.e., Roxborough, Pa.] 1777

[2] p. ; 24 cm. (4to)

MSS L1977.164.4 M

"I have mentioned to the General your proposal as to the time of detaching the parties for the roads. He approves it. But desires you only to have the detachments made & no orders given them till the General sees you in the morning at HeadQu.rs. if you should be well enough to come thither. If not, you will please to send word to his Excellency, & the messenger will carry back his further orders."
Washington was headquartered at Col. Hills, Roxboro, near Philadelphia, in August 1777 -- see Writings of George Washington, vol. 9, p. 17, note 24.
Page [2] is the address page.
Partial watermark at left margin of p. [1].
With red wax seal.
Borth Pickering and Moylan were original members of the Pennsylvania Society of the Cincinnati.
Gift of Evelyn Lansdale Wildman and Clare Lansdale Johnston, through the agency of their father, Philip Moylan Lansdale, a member of the Maryland Society of the Cincinnati

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