(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1777.) John Fitzgerald. Washington's aide-de-camp forwards orders from the general. Autograph Letter Signed as "John Fitzgerald, Aid de Camp" to unknown officer. One page, 9¼ x 7¾ inches, without postal markings or docketing; folds, minor foxing. Morristown, NJ, 25 May 1777 John Fitzgerald (died 1799) was an Irish Catholic immigrant to the colonies who served as a trusted aide-de-camp to George Washington from October 1776 to June 1778. Shortly before the launch of the British Philadelphia campaign, he wrote this message at Washington's request to an unknown senior commander: "The General says that you had better order Barnet to join you & to order the quartermaster & commissary to have all the stores sent up here which are not necessary to be taken with your division."