“To George Washington from Richard Peters, 6 November 1777 [letter not found],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-12-02-0135. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 12, 26 October 1777 – 25 December 1777, ed. Frank E. Grizzard, Jr. and David R. Hoth. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2002, p. 145.]