Letter from Colonel Easton to General Washington

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Pittsfield, February, 1776.

DEAR SIR: It is with the utmost regret that I give your Excellency the trouble of this, knowing your great multiplicity of business. But faithfulness to the dear, deceased General Montgomery and his commands, a love of liberty and my country, obliges me to do it.

You will, sir, by the letters and orders enclosed, see the minds of the Generals who wrote them; and, agreeable thereto, I calledon General Schuyler in my march from Montreal, showed him my orders, but he did not give me any particular orders. I have since sent to him, as the bearer can inform, but have got no answer.

Should I be ordered to the Northward again with a regiment, I am sure no time is to be lost in raising it, and I beg your Excellency' s direction in the premises, and am, with great esteem, your humble servant,
JAMES EASTON, Colonel.

To General Washington.

P˙ S. Pray your Excellency to send back General Montgomery' s letter by the bearer, Captain Noble.

J˙ E.