John Adams to Abigail Adams, 18 June 1775

Phyladelphia June 18. 1775

My Dear

This Letter, I presume, will go by the brave and amiable General Washington.

Our Army will have a Group of Officers, equal to any service. Washington, Ward, Lee, Gates, Gridley, 1 together with all the other New England officers, will make a glorious Council of War.

This Congress are all as deep, as the Delegates from the Massachuchusetts, and the whole Continent as forward as Boston.

We shall have a Redress of Grievances, or an Assumption of all the Powers of Government legislative, Executive and judicial, throughout the whole Continent very soon.

Georgia is bestirring itself–€”I mean the whole of it. The Parish of St. Johns which is one third of it, was with Us before.

I am &c.