Great Meadows Letters for the Year 1754

6 Letters written from the place Great Meadows to 2 people including Robert Dinwiddie. letters from Great Meadows were written in the year 1754.

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  • George Washington letter to Robert Dinwiddie.

    Great Meadows, PA - 0 May 1754

    Since writing my last I have still stronger presumption, indeed almost confirmation, that they were sent as spies, and were ordered to wait near us, till they were truly informed of our intentions

  • George Washington letter to Robert Dinwiddie.

    Great Meadows, PA - 27 May 1754

    I received the news of your arrival at Winchester, and desire of seeing the Half-King and other chiefs of the Six Nations.

  • George Washington letter to Joshua Fry.

    Great Meadows, PA - 29 May 1754

    This is by an immediate express, whom I send to inform you, that yesterday I engaged a party of French, whereof ten were killed, one wounded, and twenty-one taken, with the loss of only one of mine killed and two or three wounded

  • George Washington letter to Robert Dinwiddie.

    Great Meadows, PA - 29 May 1754

    I assure you, Sir, nothing is more a stranger to my breast, or a sin that my soul more abhors, than that black and detestable one of ingratitude.

  • George Washington letter to Robert Dinwiddie.

    Great Meadows, PA - 29 May 1754

    The bearer hereof, Monsieur Drouillon, and Monsieur La Force and two cadets, I beg leave to recommend to your particular notice, as prisoners of war, and officers whom I had the honor of taking.

  • George Washington letter to Robert Dinwiddie.

    Great Meadows, PA - 10 June 1754

    I shall with great pleasure wear the medal, which you were pleased to compliment me with, and shall present the others to Indian chiefs, as I have already done one to the Half-King.