Since last summer, Washington has received merely an acknowledgment of his public dispatches of October 1781 from John Jay, but no notice of several private letters. Perhaps these miscarried. Washington therefore repeats his thanks for the wine John Jay sent him. The evacuation of Charleston by the British is almost a certainty. New York will probably not be abandoned by the British this year. The Marquis de Vaudreuil is in Boston harbor with twelve ships. His fleet will soon be joined by the America, a ship of 74 guns built at Portsmouth, and presented by Congress to the King of France. Everyone is speculating about changes in the British ministry. The outcome of the negotiations in which John Jay is engaged are also awaited. The army is now "better Organized, disciplined, and cloathed than it has been, at any period since the commencement of the War." Dft., in hand of David Humphreys.
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United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; Jay, John, 1745-1829