(YORKTOWN CAMPAIGN) JONES JOSEPH Autograph Letter Signed Jos

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(YORKTOWN CAMPAIGN.) JONES, JOSEPH. Autograph Letter Signed, "Jos: Jones," as a member of Continental Congress, to Brigadier General George Weedon, giving news of Yorktown and Groton, and expressing hopes for victory over Cornwallis. 3 pages, 8vo, on a single folded sheet; moderate foxing. Philadelphia, 18 September 1781

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Joseph Jones (1727-1805) was then representing Virginia in the Continental Congress; he was an uncle of James Monroe. Here he updates Weedon on the latest war news that had been received in Philadelphia. Weedon, on the front lines in Virginia, probably knew most of this news better than Jones did. "The 5th day after the Ct. de Grasse's arrival in the Bay, we had an account of it. Genl. Washington, who had just left us, met it at Chester [PA]." He also mentions the British Navy's failure to break through at Yorktown, and Benedict Arnold's attack on Groton, CT. He concludes with a prescient summary of the war situation: "We have good reason to expect success agt. Cornwallis, and subduing him we may look forward to more important consequences."