The First American Army (56 page)

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GWW =
Writings of George Washington

GREENE =
Papers of Nathanael Greene

VFHP = Valley Forge Historical Park Collection

Chapter One

1
. James Thacher,
Military Journal of the American Revolution, from the Commencement to the Disbanding of the American Army; Comprising a detailed account of the principal events and Battles of the Revolution, with Their Exact Dates, and a Biographical Sketch of the most Prominent Generals, to which Is Added the Life of Washington, His Farewell Address, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States
. Hartford, CN: Hurlbut, Williams & Company, 1862, p. 68, p. 23.

2
. Peter Brown to his mother, June 28, 1775, in Ezra Stiles,
Literary Diary,
New York: Franklin Dexter, 1901, 3 vols., I: 595.

3
. Rev. David Avery, David Avery Papers, Princeton Theological Seminary.

4
. Samuel Webb to Joseph Webb, June 19, 1775, Worthington Ford, Ed.,
Correspondence and Journals of Samuel Blachley Webb,
2 vols., New York, 1893, New York Times-Arno Books, 1969, I: 63–65; Samuel Ward to Mary Ward, August 17, 1775, Samuel Ward Papers, Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence.

5
. Robert Steele to William Sumner, July 10, 1825, Samuel Swett Papers on Bunker Hill, New York Historical Society, in George Scheer and Hugh Rankin,
Rebels and Redcoats,
New York: World Publishing Company, 1957, pp. 59–60.

6
. Scheer and Rankin,
Rebels and Redcoats,
p. 61.

7
. William Prescott to John Adams, August 25, 1775, Richard Frothingham,
History of the Siege of Boston,
3rd ed., Boston, 1872, pp. 395–396.

8
. Peter Brown to his mother, June 28, 1775, in Stiles,
Literary Diary,
I: 595.

9
. Amos Farnsworth, June 17, 1776 entry in “Diary of Amos Farnsworth,” in Henry Steele Commager and Richard Morris, Eds.,
The Spirit of ’seventy Six,
2 vols., New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1958, I:122–123.