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To George Washington from the Massachusetts Committee of Supplies, 12 July 1775 [letter not found]

Letter not found: from the Massachusetts Committee of Supplies, 12 July 1775. On 12 July Horatio Gates wrote on behalf of GW to the committee of supplies: “His Excellency General Washington has commanded me to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated this day from Watertown; when the application was made yesterday, to know the Quantity of Tents Boards, & Sails, that could be procured immediately; The General wish’d to Supply Roxbury Camp, with as much as is wanted there; & sufficient to Cover One Thousand Men, & their Officers, in this Districkt.”1

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    To George Washington from the Massachusetts Committee of Supplies, 12 July 1775 [letter not found]
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    Massachusetts Committee of Supplies
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    Washington, George
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    12 July 1775

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    “To George Washington from the Massachusetts Committee of Supplies, 12 July 1775 [letter not found],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-01-02-0058. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 1, 16 June 1775 – 15 September 1775, ed. Philander D. Chase. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1985, p. 109.]

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