“To George Washington from Lord Stirling, 2 October 1775 [letter not found],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-02-02-0079. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 2, 16 September 1775 – 31 December 1775, ed. Philander D. Chase. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1987, p. 80.]