Funding: Digitization was made possible by a lead gift from The Polonsky Foundation.
Content: A. L. S. Endorsed. With letter from Joshua Loring to Col. Mathews authorizing him to start for Virginia. 2 pp. 4o

Abstract

Has laid before the Commander in Chief the memorial of the Virginia officers; regrets the necessary retaliation; Col. [George] Mathews may go home for six weeks and need not return if Gov. Hamilton be sent in on parole.

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NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b11868616
Archives ID: 927
Emmet number: EM. 20136
Archives EAD ID: 280045
Archives Components ID: 5091
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 5f26f970-6a3e-0139-3a0a-0242ac110002

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Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. "Letter to J[oshua] Loring [Jr.], Comissary Gen. of Prisoners" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1779. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/5f26f970-6a3e-0139-3a0a-0242ac110002

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