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1From George Washington to Lieutenant William Colfax, 2 October 1779 (Washington Papers)
...he left the army in November 1783. After the war, Colfax moved to Pompton, N.J., and served in the New Jersey militia, where he rose to the rank of brigadier general, commanding a brigade in the War of 1812.