Benjamin Brown A.L.S., White House, [N.J.] Jan. 8, 1780 : to [Nathanael Greene, Jockey Hollow near Morristown]
1780
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Title
Benjamin Brown A.L.S., White House, [N.J.] Jan. 8, 1780 : to [Nathanael Greene, Jockey Hollow near Morristown]
Published
White House, [N.J.] 1780
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[1] leaf ; 34 cm. (fol.)
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MSS L1982.1.143 MB
Note
The recipient and his location are surmised from internal evidence and from the bookseller's notice that identifies Greene.
Mentions sending about 20 barrels of flour "put into the sleds from Middlebrook" and "about 200 bushels chop'd grain for horse feed" that Col.[Sidney] Berry will send.
"24 barrels flour was lodg'd yesterday by some waggons at Capt. Jones abt. 7 miles from this [place]. Col Berry has issued his orders ... to forward it on as soon as possible. Expect it will be in Morris[town?] some time tomorrow." Berry was an assistant deputy quartermaster under Moore Furman -- Papers of Nathanael Greene, vol. V, p. 22. and was a Col. in the N.J. militia. Greene was headquartered near Morristown at the time.
In a postscript: "The roads still continue bad, owing to the high winds --- I shan't return till a sufficiency is gone on. NB about 20 barrels beef & pork was also forwarded this morning from the Crossroads."
Many other letters in the published Greene papers of January 1780 mention severe shortages, high winds, and heavy snow storms that rendered provisioning difficult during an unusually hard winter.
Docketed on verso [by Nathanael Greene according to the bookseller]: From Benj.a Brown/ 8th Jany 1780. Greene was Quartermaster General of the Continental Army at this time.
Not recorded in The Papers of General Nathanael Green, but see other letter from Brown mentioned on Jan. 7, 1780 on p. 246 of vol V.
Mentions sending about 20 barrels of flour "put into the sleds from Middlebrook" and "about 200 bushels chop'd grain for horse feed" that Col.[Sidney] Berry will send.
"24 barrels flour was lodg'd yesterday by some waggons at Capt. Jones abt. 7 miles from this [place]. Col Berry has issued his orders ... to forward it on as soon as possible. Expect it will be in Morris[town?] some time tomorrow." Berry was an assistant deputy quartermaster under Moore Furman -- Papers of Nathanael Greene, vol. V, p. 22. and was a Col. in the N.J. militia. Greene was headquartered near Morristown at the time.
In a postscript: "The roads still continue bad, owing to the high winds --- I shan't return till a sufficiency is gone on. NB about 20 barrels beef & pork was also forwarded this morning from the Crossroads."
Many other letters in the published Greene papers of January 1780 mention severe shortages, high winds, and heavy snow storms that rendered provisioning difficult during an unusually hard winter.
Docketed on verso [by Nathanael Greene according to the bookseller]: From Benj.a Brown/ 8th Jany 1780. Greene was Quartermaster General of the Continental Army at this time.
Not recorded in The Papers of General Nathanael Green, but see other letter from Brown mentioned on Jan. 7, 1780 on p. 246 of vol V.
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