GW left Philadelphia for the American camp in Cambridge, Massachusetts. GW was accompanied by Maj. Gen. Charles Lee, Maj. Gen. Philip Schuyler, one of his Aides-de-camp Maj. Thomas Mifflin, and his future secretary Lt. Col. Joseph Reed.

He wrote a letter to his wife Martha to inform her he was leaving Philadelphia. He wrote, “I retain an unalterable affection for you, which neither time or distance can change.”