(REVOLUTION) Cortlandt Pierre Van Letter Signed as President

Sale 1946 - Lot 332

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WARNING OF AN ATTACK AT FORT TICONDEROGA (REVOLUTION.) Cortlandt, Pierre Van. Letter Signed, as President of the Council of Safety, to Brigadier General George Clinton, inquiring about whether to reinforce Fort Ticonderoga, written just two days before the British attack which captured the Fort and decimated St. Clair's army. 1 page, folded folio sheet with integral address leaf; usual folds, minor areas of light browning, small area in the top left corner with slight remnants of a former catalogue entry, hole from opening on address leaf restored. Kingston, 3 July 1777

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". . . We think the probability of an Attack at Ticonderoga and a Cooperation of General Howe by an Attempt on the Posts in the Highlands a subject of the most serious Importance. We have not yet received any Account of an Investiture of our Northern Post; nor can we determine at present whether it will be most advisable to order the several Corps of Militia in the Counties of Dutchess & Ulster which you have not yet put under marching orders, to reinforce either the upper or the lower Posts . . . we have issued orders to the commanding Officers of those Corps to hold themselves in Readiness with the Militia under their respective Commands furnished with three Days Provisions to march at a moments warning." <