Elizabethtown Letters for the years 1776 thru 1852

6 Letters written from the place Elizabethtown to 4 people including George Washington, and Henry Thompson. Most letters from Elizabethtown were written in the year 1778. Several other letters were written in 1776 and 1816.

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  • William Livingston letter to George Washington.

    Elizabethtown, NJ - 12 August 1776

    The two thousand men for the Flying Camp, under General Dickinson, are in great forwardness, and (although very little acquainted with their duty) might answer a valuable purpose in New York

  • Aaron Burr letter to George Washington.

    Elizabethtown, PA - 28 October 1778

    The excessive heat and occasional fatigues of the preceding campaign, have so impaired my health and constitution as to render me incapable of immediate service.

  • William Livingston letter to George Washington.

    Elizabethtown, NJ - 21 December 1778

    I am happy to find your Excellency concur with me in sentiment respecting the prisoners lately be longing to the British ship, stranded on our coast

  • Rufus King letter to Christopher Gore.

    Elizabethtown - 14 May 1816

    After Mrs. King went up stairs last Evening, Gilmour the Trader returning from the West with Cash and Horses, came into my room.

  • Winfield Scott letter to Henry Clay.

    Elizabethtown, NJ - 19 July 1848

    It is now sixty days since I landed on the Jersey shore, with a Mexican disease upon me, and although obliged to travel and to engage in the most vexatious and disgusting work, I have not had the strength to walk three hundred yards

  • John Brown Sr letter to Henry Thompson.

    Elizabethtown, NY - 6 February 1852

    Mr. Judd is wanting to buy a large quantity of oats, for which he is now paying one cent per pound, cash.