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The E-Sylum: Volume 13, Number 15, April 11, 2010, Article 15

WASHINGTON'S LETTER REGARDING STONEY POINT GOLD MEDAL

Len Augsburger noted that on Wednesday April 14th the March 1790 letter from George Washington transmitting Anthony Wayne's Stoney Point congressional gold medal will go on the block at Sotheby's. -Editor

George Washington's Anthony Wayne Letter George Washington's letter of transmittal for Anthony Wayne's congressional gold medal, one of just fourteen medals authorized by Congress during the Revolution for presentation to specific individuals "to signalize and commemorate certain interesting events and Conspicuous Characters" (Journals of the Continental Congress 33: 422).

"You will receive with this, a Medal struck by order of the late Congress in commemoration of your much approved conduct in the Assault of Stoney Point—and presented to you as a mark of the high sense which your Country entertains of your services on that occasion.

"This Medal was put into my hands by Mr. Jefferson; and it is with singular pleasure that I now transmit it to you. In the postscript, Washington acknowledges "the receipt of your letter of the 1st February, which reached my hands a few days since."

Anthony Wayne's capture of the British garrison at Stony Point, New York, was one of the pivotal actions of the American Revolution. In late May 1779, British forces under General Henry Clinton began moving up the Hudson, hoping to draw George Washington into battle and possibly even to reach West Point, the "key to the American continent."

Stoney Point medal obverse Stoney Point medal reverse

To read the complete lot description, see: LOT 179 WASHINGTON, GEORGE, AS FIRST PRESIDENT (www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?lot_id=159590270)

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see: JAMES MEASE, GEORGE WASHINGTON AND ANTHONY WAYNE'S STONEY POINT MEDAL (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v13n03a06.html)

Wayne Homren, Editor

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