MCHENRY JAMES Autograph Letter Signed as aide de camp to Laf

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MCHENRY, JAMES. Autograph Letter Signed, as aide-de-camp to Lafayette, to Brigadier General George Weedon, forwarding news from James Barron about the Virginia fleet. 1 page, folio, with integral address leaf; small seal hole on address leaf, docketed "1st August" on address leaf. Malvern Hill [Henrico County, VA], 1 July [August] 1781

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"Since the General's letter of this morning, Commodore Baron writes that 'this morning (31st July) the fleet weighed from Cape Henry and stood up the bay (40 sail in number with several larger barges full of troops).' In another letter of the same date he adds 'The fleet weighed at sunrise and stood up the bay about 15 miles. The wind and tide being a head they anchored off Cherrystones.'"