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George Mercer to Andrew Lewis, 18 October 1755

George Mercer to Andrew Lewis

[Winchester, 18 October 1755]

To Major Andrew Lewis.

It is Colonel Washingtons Orders that you send a Subaltern and Twenty men with Commissary Jones, to bring in the Waggons which he shall shew them.

If the owners should presume to resist, or refuse letting them come, it is his express orders that the Officer bring them in Prisoners.

G:M. Aid de camp

October 18th 1755.

LB, DLC:GW.

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    George Mercer to Andrew Lewis, 18 October 1755
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    Mercer, George
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    Lewis, Andrew
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    18 October 1755

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    “George Mercer to Andrew Lewis, 18 October 1755,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-02-02-0120. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series, vol. 2, 14 August 1755 – 15 April 1756, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983, pp. 123–124.]

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