FOOTNOTES
[80] Philadelphia, February 18, 1782. Washington papers, Library of Congress.
[81] Same letter.
[82] March 1, 1782. Washington papers.
[83] Brother of the minister to the United States, New York, December 10, 1787; unpublished. Archives of the French Ministry of Colonies.
[84] Mentioned before, p. 21.
[85] Brevet 14,302. Archives of the Ministry of War, Paris.
[86] Steuben writes him from West Point on July 1, 1783, sending him "a resolution of the convention of the Cincinnati of June 19, 1783, by which I am requested," he says, "to transmit their thanks to you for your care and ingenuity in preparing the designs which were laid before them by the president on that day." Original in the L'Enfant papers, in the possession of Doctor James Dudley Morgan, of Washington, a descendant of the Digges family, the last friends of L'Enfant. To him my thanks are due for having allowed me to use those valuable documents.
[87] December 18, 1783. Rochambeau papers.