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To George Washington from Brigadier General John Thomas, 23 October 1775

From Brigadier General John Thomas

Roxbury Camp Octr 23d 1775

Sir

You will Excuse me when I Trouble your Excellency so Often with the Application of Officers for Discharges Since I wrote this Morning, one Lt Blake of Colo. Fellow’s Regt has Applyed, & it is recommended that he have his request Granted, as he is a Person that will be no Loss to the Army1—I am, Sir, Your very Humb. servt

Jno. Thomas

L, DLC:GW.

1. George Blake, lieutenant of Capt. Simeon Hazleton’s company in Col. John Fellows’s Massachusetts regiment, was discharged on 24 October. The letter that Thomas wrote earlier on this date has not been identified.

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    To George Washington from Brigadier General John Thomas, 23 October 1775
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    23 October 1775

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    “To George Washington from Brigadier General John Thomas, 23 October 1775,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-02-02-0201. [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. 223.]

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