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From George Washington to Brigadier General David Wooster, 9 June 1776

To Brigadier General David Wooster

New-York June 9th 1776

Sir

The Congress have been pleased to direct your Recal, as you will perceive by the inclosed Copy of their Resolution1—I am therefore, in Compliance with their Command, to make it my Request, that you immediately repair to Head Quarters at New-York. I am Sir Your most obedt Servt

G. W.

LB, in Alexander Contee Hanson’s writing, DLC:GW; Varick transcript, DLC:GW.

1. For the Continental Congress’s resolution of 6 June regarding Wooster, see Hancock to GW, 7 June 1776, n. 1.

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    From George Washington to Brigadier General David Wooster, 9 June 1776
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    “From George Washington to Brigadier General David Wooster, 9 June 1776,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-04-02-0377. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 4, 1 April 1776 – 15 June 1776, ed. Philander D. Chase. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1991, p. 482.]

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