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1822 Letter to Historic Revolutionary War Colonel RICHARD CLOUGH ANDERSON who famously Crossed the Delaware River with General George Washington -- Anderson Crossing in the First Boat Advancing on Trenton

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March 19, 1822-Dated, Stampless Folded Letter with a Red “CHILLICOTHE/OHIO.” double-oval handstamp, and manuscript "Paid 18-1/2" postal rate, addressed to RICHARD CLOUGH ANDERSON: "Col. Richard C. Anderson, Soldiers Retreat, near Middletown, Kentucky", who Led the Advance at the Battle of Trenton, famously Crossing the Delaware River in the First Boat across with George Washington on December 24, 1776, Very Fine.

This 1-folio page Manuscript Letter contains content from John A. Fuller, a surveyor of the Ohio Reserves, and concerns surveys and military warrants of land in the Virginia Military District of land in Ohio, which was land reserved by Virginia for its Revolutionary War Veterans. It has and Integral Mailing Leaf and this Letter is addressed to: RICHARD CLOUGH ANDERSON (1750-1826), who was born in Hanover County, Virginia. During the American Revolutionary War, Anderson was Lt. Colonel of the 5th Virginia Regiment in the Continental Army. He Led the Advance of the Americans forward at the Battle of Trenton on December 24, 1776, famously Crossing the Delaware River in the first of the boats, together with General George Washington.

Colonel Anderson fought at the Battles of Brandywine and Germantown; and served as Aide-de-Camp to Marquis de Lafayette at the Battle of Yorktown. In 1783, he was commissioned “Surveyor General” instructed to divide the Western Land reserved by Virginia for rewarding Veterans of the Continental Army, and he later settled in Kentucky, near Louisville. These lands were in what was then known as the Western Military District, located in Kentucky and Ohio. Anderson’s home in Kentucky was then known as "Soldiers Retreat".

Richard Anderson was a close associate and friend to George Washington and often corresponded with him. His first wife, Elizabeth Clark, was the Sister of George Rogers Clark and William Clark (of the Lewis & Clark Expedition fame). His second wife, Sarah Marshall, was a Cousin of Chief Justice John Marshall. Remarkably, one of their children was none other than Robert Anderson, of Civil War and Battle of Fort Sumter fame. Anderson is certainly an unsung American Revolutionary War Hero.
Keywords: American Revolution, Revolutionary War, RICHARD CLOUGH ANDERSON, Delaware River, George Washington, Trenton, Manuscript, Crossing the Delaware, Continental Army, Brandywine, Germantown, Aide-de-Camp, Marquis de Lafayette, Civil War, Battle of Fort Sumter
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