Letter to Mrs. [Elias] Boudinot, Baskinridge [N. J.]
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Title
Letter to Mrs. [Elias] Boudinot, Baskinridge [N. J.]
Collection
Thomas Addis Emmet collection
Miscellaneous Manuscripts
Names
Boudinot, Elias, 1740-1821 (Author)
Boudinot, Mrs. Elias (Addressee)
Date / Origin
Date Created: 1777-10-05
Place: 29 miles from Philadelphia, Pa.
Library Location
Manuscripts and Archives Division
Shelf locator: MssCol 927
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Notes
Funding: Digitization was made possible by a lead gift from The Polonsky Foundation.
Content: A. L. S. Endorsed. 3 pp. Fo
Abstract
Details the American attack on Germantown; their troops behaved nobly, marching 40 miles and fighting a battle within 24 hours; one of their frigates has taken 4 Jamaica men [ships] out of 5, one of them a 20-gun ship; in a postscript, has just seen the General who cannot account for the failure to hold Germantown; he has confidence that America will yet be free, but the time has not yet come.
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NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b11868616
Archives ID: 927
Emmet number: EM. 20015
Archives EAD ID: 279925
Archives Components ID: 4971
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 7da7a4c0-6a3d-0139-989d-0242ac110002
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Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. "Letter to Mrs. [Elias] Boudinot, Baskinridge [N. J.]" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1777. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/7da7a4c0-6a3d-0139-989d-0242ac110002
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Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. (1777). Letter to Mrs. [Elias] Boudinot, Baskinridge [N. J.] Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/7da7a4c0-6a3d-0139-989d-0242ac110002
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Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. "Letter to Mrs. [Elias] Boudinot, Baskinridge [N. J.]" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 13, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/7da7a4c0-6a3d-0139-989d-0242ac110002
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