Sites for Winter Quarters
Document 1799Hamilton reports on the proposed sites for winter quarters: the southern regiments will be near Harpers Ferry, the mid-Atlantic regiments will be at Scotch Plains, and the northern regiments will be near Uxbridge.
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Type
Letter Signed
Description
Hamilton reports on the proposed sites for winter quarters: the southern regiments will be near Harpers Ferry, the mid-Atlantic regiments will be at Scotch Plains, and the northern regiments will be near Uxbridge.
Date
09/23/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
New York
Collection
Document number
1799092337200
Note
Cited in Washington to Hamilton, 09/29/1799.
Notable persons
George Washington
Alexander Hamilton
General James Wilkinson
Colonel Thomas Parker
young troops
Notable locations
New York
Harpers Ferry
Scotch Plains near Bound Brook will be fixed upon for the 11th, 12th, and 13th Regiments
suitable position for the three most northern regiments in the vicinity of Uxbridge in Massachusetts
Notable items
letter of this date to Colonel Parker about winter quarters for the Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Regiments
arsenals
magazines
a good summer encampment