George Washington Papers

To George Washington from Lieutenant Thomas Terrill, 7 October 1775

From Lieutenant Thomas Terrill

Roxbury Camp 7 October 1775. Requests discharge from the army. “The State of my Health is such that I am not able to do my Duty in the Army.”

LS, DLC:GW. Col. Jedediah Huntington added a note to this letter requesting Terrill’s discharge.

Thomas Terrill (Tyrrell), lieutenant of Capt. John Ripley’s company in Huntington’s Connecticut regiment, was discharged on 11 October.

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    To George Washington from Lieutenant Thomas Terrill, 7 October 1775
    Author
    Terrill, Thomas
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    Washington, George
    Date
    7 October 1775

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    “To George Washington from Lieutenant Thomas Terrill, 7 October 1775,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-02-02-0112. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 2, 16 September 1775 – 31 December 1775, ed. Philander D. Chase. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1987, p. 122.]