WASHINGTON TO HAMILTON AND DU PORTAIL.
Reading edition
Head Quarters, West Point, October 25, 1779.
Gentlemen:
I have just received a letter from Colonel Hamilton, mentioning your having changed your position, at Lewistown, for that of Little Egg Harbor; and that you would write me more fully on your arrival at the Furnace.
In my last I informed you that the enemy had evacuated both their posts at King’s Ferry; since which, no alteration has taken place that has come to my knowledge. Things at Rhode Island remain in the same situation; at least I have received no accounts, either confirming or contradicting my former intelligence.
I am, Gentlemen, your most ob’t, Humble servant, G. Washington.
Gen. Du Portail. Colonel Hamilton.