(YORKTOWN CAMPAIGN) ANDREWS ROBERT Autographed Letter Signed

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AT YORKTOWN, MEN FIGHT FOR "LIBERTIES & PROPERTY, & NOT TO PROCURE PLUNDER" (YORKTOWN CAMPAIGN.) ANDREWS, ROBERT. Autographed Letter Signed, as secretary to Governor Thomas Nelson, to Brigadier General George Weedon, ordering that slaves recaptured from the British be restored to their plantations in the name of liberty. 1 page, 4to,with integral address leaf. Williamsburg [VA], 26 September 1781

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"A body of the Loudoun militia, on their march to this place, have been ordered to change their route & join you immediately. They amount, we are told, to about 4 or 500 men. The Governor has directed that all negroes taken from the enemy be returned to their former proprietors. The principle on which it is supposed men fight at present is to protect & secure to themselves & fellow citizens their liberties & property, & not to procure plunder."