Report on Latest Desertions, Promise to Advertise for Deserters, & West Point Garrison's Need for Shoes & Clothing
Document 1786Reports on two recent desertions, guessing at their destination and promising to advertise for them in New York and New Jersey. Requests that shoes and other clothing be sent for the West Point garrison.
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West Point. in Oct 1786 —
Two of your men [undecipherable] & [undecipherable] of Henry under [undecipherable] Thursday [undecipherable] deserted from this place on [undecipherable] of 29 July [undecipherable] last, I am to think they have gone to [undecipherable] as they have [undecipherable] from here, I have informed to [undecipherable] you — You had better advertise them both — in New Jersey or New York —
I request you will forward to me, some [undecipherable] — three for the four men of yours that is left, as [undecipherable] [undecipherable] two [undecipherable] Lenox Cannels for Milliss & Collins, as the Deserter Carried of the Like number for them, and they have [undecipherable] themselves with, as they have Both Carried their own [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] with them — [undecipherable] —
W [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
New Jersey —
West Point [undecipherable] [undecipherable] 15 —
Sir
Agreeable to your Letter & [undecipherable] letter, say [undecipherable] [undecipherable] had a furlough from him for bounty day to go to the Dep[undecipherable] and he has now returned without any [undecipherable] information that he has from but his and them to [undecipherable] and but they produced a Warrant from [undecipherable] Excellency Gov. [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] then Discharge upon which he released them, the Warrant is have entitled, he further says that he has been to every place where he thought there was a prospect of finding any of them or get any Information, but in [undecipherable] —
He now requests that he may be discharged by producing a man in his place who he [undecipherable] from Lieut Wilcox, as he did not leave your Letter with me & I cannot take him for [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in that Cap —
Type
Letterbook
Description
Reports on two recent desertions, guessing at their destination and promising to advertise for them in New York and New Jersey. Requests that shoes and other clothing be sent for the West Point garrison.
Date
08/13/1786
Author
Recipient
Sent from
West Point
Collection
Document number
1786081340055
Page start
38
Note
Recipient cannot be confirmed from image.
Notable persons
Henry Knox
William Price
Secretary of War
Notable locations
West Point
garrison
New York
Notable items
desertion
shoes
clothing
advertising desertions

