| MOYP120 | Reply of Col Moylan to General Washington | [July 1780] |
Colonel Moylan replied
To Dr. James McHenry, Aide-de-Camp and Secretary to Washington,
5th July, 1780:
It is his Excellency's desire that I should post
my Regiment near the rear of the army at a place
calculated to afford a sufficiency of Forage.
I have been from the right to the left of the army,
in its front and in its rear, and can assure you,
that except I was to crowd in upon the ground
occupied by Major Lee's Corps, or get upon Pumpton
plains I do not know a place where a Regt. of horse
could subsist themselves in the Rear or Right.
The 4th is at present at the little Falls and shall
be glad to know whether I shall move them to, for I
assure you I know not, except I get upon the road
leading to Morristown. There's good ground about
two miles to the Left of Head Quarters.
Misplaced MOYLAN letter in the Moylan Biography by Martin Griffin
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