Posted on 03/14/2026 11:06:24 AM PDT by Libloather
Two secret battlefield letters written by George Washington during one of the toughest winters of the Revolutionary War have recently surfaced and are now up for sale — just in time for America’s 250th birthday celebration this July 4.
Four years into the American colonist’s bloody struggle to break free from British rule, Gen. Washington, from his headquarters in Morristown, NJ penned the letters revealing how the Continental Army tried to monitor loyalist activity and British troop movements across the Hudson River during the winter of 1779 to 1780.
Those messages, carefully preserved by descendants of Revolutionary War soldiers, are now owned by The Raab Collection, a firm that tracks down historic letters from figures like Abraham Lincoln, Amelia Earhart, and Theodore Roosevelt.
“This is a very exciting find, ” collector and historian Nathan Raab told The Post from his office in Ardmore, Pa. “We’re very excited to have these letters.”
Raab bought the letters for an undisclosed price from a family that had no heirs left to inherit them.
The 47-year-old co-author of the 2020 book “The Hunt for History,” is now selling the letters on his site. The first is going for $150,000 and the second for $80,000.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
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From what I can read of some of these letters, George Washington wanted to doxx the loyalists.
I watched letters from GW to one of my 5th great grandfathers go up to auction but wasn’t in any position to even imagine owning them. Blessed be xerox machines.
Early Jersey.
X-roads of the Rev.
Big Deal! I have a bunch of e-mails from President Trump and I am saving them for my descendants. They will be worth millions, unless the dems get back control and millions won’t buy a loaf of bread.
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