George Washington Papers

To George Washington from Gillam Tailer, 1 November 1775

From Gillam Tailer

Cambridge Novr 1st 1775

May it please your Excellency

I beg leave to represent to you that I am a young person from Boston, where I have left my all. I have been brought up in the mercantile way but by reason of the unhappy situation of Affairs am now out of employ, should esteem it a great favor if yr Excellcy would bestow some Employ on me, that I may be of some little service to my Country, for which shall ever retain a grateful sense & am Your Excellency’s Most Obedt Hble Servt

Gillam Tailer

ALS, DLC:GW.

Gillam Tailer (Taylor) became an ensign in the 2d Continental Infantry on 1 Jan. 1776. For a recommendation of Tailer, see Moses Gill and John Pitts to GW, 30 Nov. 1775.

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    To George Washington from Gillam Tailer, 1 November 1775
    Author
    Tailer, Gillam
    Recipient
    Washington, George
    Date
    1 November 1775

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    “To George Washington from Gillam Tailer, 1 November 1775,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-02-02-0258. [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, pp. 278–279.]