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Letter from Alexander Leslie to Charles Cornwallis, Marquis Cornwallis
Leslie, Alexander, ca. 1740-1794
November 04, 1780
Volume 14, Page 725

GEN. A. LESLIE TO LORD CORNWALLIS.

Portsmouth, Virginia, Novr. 4th, 1780.

My Lord:

I have been here near a week establishing a Post. I wrote to you to Charles Town, and by another Messenger by Land. I can't hear for a certainty where you are; I wait your orders. The bearer is to be handsomely rewarded if he brings me any note or mark from your Ldship.

A. L.
Directed, Lord Cornwallis.