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George Washington to Major Jean Bernard de Murnan, 4 May 1779

George Washington to Major Jean Bernard de Murnan1

[Middlebrook, New Jersey] May 4, 1779. Announces appointment of De Murnan by Brigadier General Du Portail to the frontier service. Orders De Murnan to Wyoming, Pennsylvania.

Df, in writing of H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.

1. Jean Bernard de Murnan was commissioned as major of the Corps of Engineers, January 13, 1779, to date from March 1, 1778.

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    George Washington to Major Jean Bernard de Murnan, 4 May 1779
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    4 May 1779

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    “George Washington to Major Jean Bernard de Murnan, 4 May 1779,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-02-02-0109. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 2, 1779–1781, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1961, p. 40.]