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George Mercer to Robert Rutherford, 14–15 April 1756

George Mercer to Robert Rutherford

[Winchester, 14–15 April 1756]

To the Commissary.

It is Colonel Washingtons orders, that you load a Waggon immediately with provision, and send it off to Joseph Edwards’s, for the party there.1 I am &c.

G:M. aid de camp.

LB, DLC:GW.

1. On 12 April GW had ordered John Fenton Mercer to return with his detachment to Joseph Edwards’s.

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    George Mercer to Robert Rutherford, 14–15 April 1756
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    Rutherford, Robert
    Date
    14–15 April 1756

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    “George Mercer to Robert Rutherford, 14–15 April 1756,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-02-02-0352. [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. 350.]

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