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To George Washington from Captain William Palfrey, 29 January 1776

From Captain William Palfrey

Stamford [Conn.] 29th January 1776

Sir

General Lee being unfortunately visited with the Gout or Rheumatism, has directed me to inclose to your Excellency the Copy of a Letter he has just receiv’d by Express from the President of the Continental Congress.1 General Lee would have wrote you, but the position of writing is so very painful that he hopes you will excuse him. Notwithstanding his illness he is determin’d to go forward to-morrow in a Litter which he has ordered to be prepared for that purpose. He begs his Compliments to Mrs Washington & the family, to which we beg leave to add those of Mr Byrd and Your Excellency’s most obedient and humble Servant

Wm Palfrey Aid de Camp

ALS, DLC:GW; copy, MH: Palfrey Family Papers.

1. Hancock informed Lee in his letter of 26 Jan. that Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Lynch, and Andrew Allen were appointed a committee to confer with Lee and the New York committee of safety about the defense of New York City (DLC:GW; see also JCC description begins Worthington Chauncey Ford et al., eds. Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789. 34 vols. Washington, D.C., 1904–37. description ends , 4:94).

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    To George Washington from Captain William Palfrey, 29 January 1776
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    Washington, George
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    29 January 1776

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    “To George Washington from Captain William Palfrey, 29 January 1776,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-03-02-0154. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 3, 1 January 1776 – 31 March 1776, ed. Philander D. Chase. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1988, p. 212.]

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