1To George Washington from Colonels Jedediah Huntington, Samuel Wyllys, and Samuel Holden Parsons, 16 December 1775 (Washington Papers)
Recommend Stephen Keyes “A Young Gentleman from Connecticutt . . . as a person of Education, Genius, & Spirit, & capable of doing honour to any Regt in which yr Excelly Should see fit to appoint him a Lieut.” LS , DLC:GW . This undated letter was apparently written about the same time as was Joseph Spencer’s letter to GW of 16 Dec. recommending Keyes. For background on this letter, see Keyes...
2To George Washington from Colonel Samuel Wyllys, 13 April 1776 (Washington Papers)
Norwich [Conn.] 13 April 1776 . Recommends that the bearer Lieutenant Huntington be promoted to captain in place of Captain Wells who has been appointed a major. LS , DLC:GW . For the controversy over Ebenezer Huntington’s earlier appointment as a lieutenant, see GW to Joseph Spencer, 26 Sept. 1775 . Huntington obtained the vacant captaincy in Colonel Wyllys’s 22d Continental Regiment over a...