Today in Johnson City History, Tuesday, September 30, 2025
George Washington writes his nephew, news from in and near Johnson City and Butler
Saturday, September 30, 1775: Two hundred and fifty years ago today, “In a letter to his nephew, Lund Washington, plantation manager of Mount Vernon, General George Washington writes on September 30, 1776, of his displeasure with the undisciplined conduct and poor battlefield performance of the American militia. Washington blamed the Patriot reliance on the militia as the chief root of his problems in the devastating loss of Long Island and Manhattan to the British.