Delegates to Congress
. Letters of delegates to Congress, 1774-1789, Volume 7, May 1 1777-September 18 1777
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John Adams to To: Abigail Adams
May 2. 1777
(1)
We have promoted Arnold, one Step this day, for his Vigilance, Activity, and Bravery, in the late Affair at Connecticutt. We shall make Huntingdon a Brigadier, I hope.(2)
We shall sleep in a whole Skin for some Time I think in Philadelphia, at least untill a strong Reinforcement arrives.
I want to learn, where Sir William Erskine with his Two Thousand Men, went after his Exploit at Danbury. Perhaps to Newport.
Note: RC (MHi). Adams, Family Correspondence (Butterfield), 2:230.
1 For a brief letter to Abigail and their children which Adams wrote the preceding day about Tammany, a seventeenth-century chief of the Delawares whose local popularity was turned-to political ends in 1773 when Philadelphia radicals founded the Sons of Saint Tammany, see ibid., pp. 229-30.
2 Benedict Arnold was promoted to major general on this date; Jedediah Huntington was promoted to brigadier general on May 12. JCC, 7:323, 347.
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