New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-03-06
MOInnOns.
RETOLUTIONARY PAPERS.
UNPUBLISHED LETTERS FROM GEN. WASH
INGTON, COL. PICKERING, BENEDICT
ARNOLD-E\ECUTION OF MAIL ANDRE.

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INGTON. COL. PICKERING, BENEDICT
ARNOLD-EXECUTION OF MAJ. ANDRE.
To ne Edifo, Of The n. y Tribune
Sir: Having occasion to visit The Village of Ovid,
Seneca County, n Y, during meeting of tie Trus'
tees of the New.York State Agricultural College, I
WAS invited by the Hon Arad JOY of that place to
e1smine a large lot of original Revolutionary docu.
meats which he has been collecting during period Of
thirty years, aud am permitted to copy some of the
papers for publication.
The documents were arranged as follows:
Fr,t. Fourteen manuscript books, large foolscsp
size averaging three bundled pages each, containing
copies of three thousand hundred sud eleven let.
tiers addr, ssed to ali of the leading officers of the Amer
lean and French armies between Aug. :, 1880, and
July 9. I7s7.
second More than two thousand original letters
from officer. the answeis to which contained i'll
the above books, thus Attending the correspondence
from both sides. There about seventy letters from
Wasbir gtoD more than one hundred from Hamilton,
dozen from Lafayette, few from Arnold and know
not how many from other officers. To complete the
let would only be to give the of the prominen!
men Of the Revolution. None Of these letters have
ever bee copied or published.
Third; Fifteen or twenty Orderly books, containing
the daily occurrences Of the war.
FoarfL Private journals of soldiers serving IN the
army;
F.th. Large number Of psy and muster rolls
h,Ih What the Germans would cal au uApsdss Of
account books
Lastly: Continental money.
shall begin with letter from b. Arnold, dated one
month before the capture of Ma or Andre:
" HKADQUARTERs RoBISsos's House.
"WEsT PoIST, Aug. 20 1880. (
"Dr.R SIR: wrote you on the 10th inst letter of
1ton fer necessares wanted in the Quarter master
Gtrersls DEPARTMENT ST West Point and its vicinity
copy OF which do nov pCose, together with copy OF
aetter Of yet rday date, and slim from Mccarthy
II. .. NJ. General a. this pest From this voul 61d
thai many thu Sc wsned here in a -Lor time for
securing the old and racting new barracks aud
buildings TO cover the troops against the inclemencies
Of the fost approaching Winter.
Much remains 10 DC done here for al which the
tools Ard materials eth 10 be collected and as the
season is shesdy far adv snced every e.ertion will be
Necessary In he persons TO be employed in this bus.
ICs. lat NE, therefore be- you tina; eyersthin,
within your power and immediate direction NAV be-
furnished 10 enable me to have the proper measures
tsken fere.
sm informed in letter Of the 2lst from the En-.
slnetr, That the mdcle part OF the chain across the
HuesoD 81 these poets If sinking and in dangerou,
situation ON account Of the logs which il hiss hitherto
noAt.c 90 being water soaken; that unless this be
specify remedi.o il will be 1ut of our over 10 ras
- :
enoer canbct be hauled for want Of tesps Of sbicb
We have not hsf sufficient for the daily necessities ~
the garrison. -
have made fre Quent applications to Gen Cresn.
Sno Col Nay for teams ana received for answer tbx
be public has horses sufficient for our service b,, MOI
any wagons, carts, or harue-s
seh The refoIe Sir, that tie harness men Toned in
u! 'eIer OF me lo'h may without falur. be sent no
aba ss MAJ wagons or carts as you have il In ,oar
snVSiS tohA II most expedieat for the service il
huneI q yoke OF oxen were employed at tbis 40, 10
eoo VI no'ses The labor to be performed D, lbern il
h hs! nsSsy ana The road. exceedingly rough sad NJ
Added to this the difference in consumpton o.
oetwteH horses and oxen, is al east as two to onsie
garrison 20 lily supplied ''1'e u
VIII respectful sentiu,pt.
e Az, dear Sir
Your ob't and very buuabl. .~rX.
h. ARNOLD
p. S-Ihere Is not one quireof paper or one ,r,cl
Of stationery At this post or in the Department,
Col rCkiKNS, oaNtsrn.ser-CtnersAr