Excerpt from Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1888, Vol. 10: With General Index to the Ten Volumes; The Trumbull Papers, Vol; II IN the year 1885 this Society published a volume of Historical Collections (ix. 5th Series), made up of early miscellaneous papers, and letters of Dr. William Samuel Johnson and Colonel J edediah Huntington, selected from the Trumbull Papers in' the possession of the Society. The present volume is from the same collection, and includes the correspondence in those papers between General Washington and Governor Trumbull, with a few letters from the former to General Gates, General Putnam, and others, and also an official correspondence during the years 1775 to 1778 between Trumbull and Joseph Warren, James Warren, General Gage, and John Hancock. Eighty-six of the letters of Washington, beginning with the one dated March 24, 1779, and marked in this volume with an asterisk, are printed from original letters in the collection; the remaining letters are from Copies in Gov ernor Trumbull's letter-books. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.