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Jonathan Trumbull Jr., Washington's secretary, relays Washington's request that General Knox be at Head Quarters the next day due to some important business of a very particular Nature that needs discussion and to bring General [Jedediah] Huntington with him. Noted as written at Head Quarters.
Jonathan Trumbull Jr., as Washington's secretary, requests that Knox and General Huntington attend a dinner with General Washington the next day and then select the best ground for the celebration of peace. Noted as written at Head Quarters.
Jonathan Trumbull Jr., as Washington's secretary, requests that Knox finish the preparations for a public exhibition.
Responds to Trumbull's letter requesting information for George Washington to incorporate into a letter to Governor of Virginia Thomas Nelson (see GLC02437.01282). Explains plans to establish an artillery magazine in Virginia, containing the ordnance remaining after the siege of Yorktown. The artillery would be for the use of the Southern Army and protection of Virginia in case of a British invasion. Washington needs to make requests to Governor Nelson for a location to store the munitions, preferably in Westham, and a party for the transport. Discusses the channels through which the requests and instructions to officers should travel. Knox's instructions to Colonel Edward Carrington in regard to the creation of the magazine appear in GLC02437.01284. Trumbull was Washington's military secretary.
Written from Head Quarters. Jonathan Trumbull Jr. writes, The General directs the inclosed extract of a letter to be sent to you - and begs that you will take speedy measures to have Colo. Reid supplied. Trumbull was an aide-de-camp and secretary to General George Washington. See GLC02437.01445 for related information.
Jonathan Trumbull Jr. communicates a request from George Washington asking Knox to send a copy of the information Washington is to incorporate into a letter to Governor of Virginia Thomas Nelson. Washington also wants a list of the cannons Knox proposed be sold to reimburse William Ross. Possibly concerns indemnification for impressed supplies needed for the siege of Yorktown. Washington recently wrote a letter to the Governor of Maryland under similar circumstances (see GLC02437.01273). Trumbull was Washington's military secretary. Knox's reply appears in GLC02437.01286.
Jonathan Trumbull Jr., Washington's secretary, requests Knox to have the [gun] carriages completed in order to be sent with Count Rochambeau to France.