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To George Washington from Robert Dinwiddie, 1 September 1757

From Robert Dinwiddie

Williamsburg Septr 1st 1757

Sir

My Friend Colo. Fairfax earnestly desires his Son Wm Henry may have a Lieutt’s Commission in the Regiment, if any Vacancy I desire You may give him a Commission accordingly, & as You have Blank Commissions fill one up for him if any Vacancy, which will be agreeable to Sir Your mo. humble Servant1

Robt Dinwiddie

LS, DLC:GW.

1. Dinwiddie enclosed this note in a letter to William Fairfax (see Dinwiddie to GW, 2 Sept.), who died on 3 September. GW still had not received it on 17 Sept. and may not have got it until the end of September 1757 when he went to Belvoir for Fairfax’s funeral.

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    To George Washington from Robert Dinwiddie, 1 September 1757
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    Washington, George
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    1 September 1757

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    “To George Washington from Robert Dinwiddie, 1 September 1757,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-04-02-0249. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series, vol. 4, 9 November 1756 – 24 October 1757, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1984, p. 392.]

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