YORKTOWN: HUGH HUGHES Quartermaster for the State of New York. Fine content A.L.S. 4pp. 4to., Fishkill, Oct. 27, 1781 to Deputy Quartermaster Nicholas Quakenbush reporting the surrender of Cornwallis and Sir Henry Clinton's futile relief attempt. In part: "...The General [Heath] will let you have a Party to cut Wood as soon as the Alarm is over & that will be very shortly, you may rely as those Rascals are sent out only to harass this Army from making an Attack on N York in Sir Henry's Absence. He having sailed last Wednesday...with 25 Ships of the Line, Frigates &c. And Troops aboard to relive his Lordship [Cornwallis] who was a Prisoner before Sir Harry could get to his Assistance...General Heath writes me that a Person directly from Philadelphia says he saw a printed Handbill there giving the same Acct. — Some Deserters from N York confirms it also, so that an official One may be...expected. Mine came with so much Dispatch that many knew Nothing of the Writers Character since I gave them the first Acct. of Burgoyne's...You see I am lucky at News, tho' I deal but little in it... " This is likely the first news received in Albany regarding the surrender as Cornwallis formally surrendered on October 19, 1781. A few partial fold separations and marginal chips, some small hole affects several words of text, a few old minor tape repairs, otherwise very good. $800-1,200