From George Washington to Robert Lettis Hooper, Jr., 6 January 1780
To Robert Lettis Hooper, Jr.
Hd Qrs Morris town Jany [6]1 1780
Sir,
I have directed the Serjeant who will deliver you this, to proceed with his party of horse to Easton for the purpose of Guarding James Ohara & the Deserters mentioned in your letter of the 30th Novr to Lord Stirling,2 to this place—You will be pleased therefore to have them delivered to the party3—The frends of Ohara have solicited that he may be indulged with coming in a sled—should they provide one for his accommodation I have no objection to it. I am &ca
G.W.
Df, in Richard Kidder Meade’s writing, DLC:GW; Varick transcript, DLC:GW.
1. The draft is docketed 6 January.
2. This letter has not been identified, but Hooper had written to Maj. Gen. Nathanael Greene on that date requesting that Greene help obtain a pardon for James O’Hara (see 5:131). O’Hara may have been a deserter from the 2d Canadian Regiment.
3. The authorities in Easton, Pa., had arrested O’Hara as a counterfeiter, and Major General Stirling claimed O’Hara was also a spy (see Stirling to GW, 7 Jan.).