This information is from the Mount Vernon Site.
So the month of April is spent tying up loose ends in Boston and moving his troops to New York.
I would add that as usual George Washington is modestly suggesting that it is the pamphlet "Common Sense" that is influencing the Virginia men to rally around the Revolutionary War. I suggest that it is the news that has traveled throughout the 13 colonies of the fact that the siege of Boston has ended with a Victory for the Patriots with no blood shed!
My own ancestor, William Morrison and his two brothers along with young men from Pittsylvania County, Virginia and adjoining counties leave their homes for Williamsburg in March 1776 to join George Washington for the battles that will be fought in the next two years! I do not believe it is a coincidence
Do not miss this four minute account of March 1776 and events that led up to it from the American Battlefields.org:
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