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George Mercer to Denis McCarty, 30 January 1756

George Mercer to Denis McCarty

[30 January 1756]

To Ensign Denis McCarty.
Sir,

Enclosed is a Commission, appointing you an Ensign in the Virginia Regiment. Colonel Washington has been pleased to appoint you to Captain Bronaugh’s Company—You are therefore ordered to act in that Company, until further orders. Yours &c.

G:M. aid de camp.

January 30th 1756.

LB, DLC:GW.

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    George Mercer to Denis McCarty, 30 January 1756
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    30 January 1756

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    “George Mercer to Denis McCarty, 30 January 1756,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-02-02-0306. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series, vol. 2, 14 August 1755 – 15 April 1756, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983, p. 305.]