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Lot 276
WASHINGTON, GEORGE War-date signature clipped from a larger letter.
[No place (but Head Quarters New Windsor): 27 March 1781 (date from docketing)]. The lower third of a secretarially prepared letter from General Washington to Colonel [Elias] Dayton, with the ink signature "G:Washington" in Washington's hand above a 7-line postscript in a secretarial hand. 5 x 8 inches (13 x 20 cm). Folds and stains affecting signature, the sheet backed, mat toned, offered with a later color lithographed portrait..
A clipped signature on a known Washington letter to Captain Elias Dayton of New Jersey. In the post-script here, Washington tells Dayton: "Since writing the foregoing, I am favor'd with yours of the 26th. I have such a confidence in your prudence as well as zeal for the service, that I cannot hesitate, to give my permission for employing the 20 Men, in the Manner you propose." This is in response to Dayton's letters informing Washington of the difficulty in sending men into British occupied Manhattan. In Dayton's previous letter to Washington, located in the online archive of Washington's letters, Dayton had suggested: "I have a prospect of doing something to Advantage upon Staten Island with twenty men which with your excellencys permission I will attempt...." For the full text of the present letter, see:
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/99-01-02-05219
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