(YORKTOWN CAMPAIGN) HENDRICKS JAMES Group of 8 Autograph Let

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(YORKTOWN CAMPAIGN.) HENDRICKS, JAMES. Group of 8 Autograph Letters Signed, as Deputy Quartermaster in the Continental Army, to Brigadier General George Weedon, documenting his steady efforts to supply Weedon's militia with troops, weapons, ships, and whatever else Alexandria could provide toward the war effort. Each 1 or 2 pages, 4to or folio; various conditions but generally sound. Alexandria [VA], May to August 1781

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James Hendricks had served as a colonel, and was also serving as mayor of Alexandria, VA. The first letter, dated 9 May, is also the most dramatic: "I doubt not but these pirates will visit Potowmack in its turn, tho I can't see any valuable end it will answer, but merely distressing individuals and harassing our militia. Our town is not worth their attention, there being no stores of any consequence. . . . What with the distresses the people have met with in having their horses &c impress'd by the Marquis's detachment, and our militia being so lately on duty having left their arms below, I don't know if 150 men could be rais'd in a week."