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To George Washington from Brigadier General John Thomas, 11 October 1775

From Brigadier General John Thomas

Roxbury 11th of Octor 1775

Your may Remember I Mentioned to your Excellency the Discharge of Some Subalterns that were Making Applycation for it, & agreable to your Answer I have Directed King Lapham, Joshua Baisto & Lieut. Cole, to wait on your Excellency who I think may be Spared from the Army1—I am with the Greatest respect your most Obedt & very Humble servt

John Thomas

L, DLC:GW.

1. King Lapham was a lieutenant and Joshua Baisto and Joseph Cole, Jr., were ensigns in Thomas’s Massachusetts regiment now commanded by Lt. Col. John Bailey. These three subalterns were discharged on this date.

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    To George Washington from Brigadier General John Thomas, 11 October 1775
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    “To George Washington from Brigadier General John Thomas, 11 October 1775,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-02-02-0135. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 2, 16 September 1775 – 31 December 1775, ed. Philander D. Chase. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1987, p. 142.]

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