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Memorandum respecting the Militia, 6 May 1756

Memorandum respecting the Militia

[Winchester, 6 May 1756]

May 6th: the Prince William Detachment consistg of ⟨8⟩ Officers and 121 private Men arriv’d here and abt an hour or two after them came Colo. Ewel.1

1. Ewel was probably Bertrand Ewell (1715–1795) of Prince William County, vestryman of Dettingen Parish, justice of the peace, and county surveyor.

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    Memorandum respecting the Militia, 6 May 1756
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    Washington, George
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    “Memorandum respecting the Militia, 6 May 1756,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-03-02-0091. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series, vol. 3, 16 April 1756–9 November 1756, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1984, p. 97.]