George Washington Papers

To George Washington from Colonel Thomas Church, 14 October 1775

From Colonel Thomas Church

Camp on Prospect Hill 14 October 1775. Requests discharge of Capt. William Cooke, “His Bodily Indisposition being such as Renders him Incapable of doing Duty, without Subjecting him to more Pain than is Consistant with the Laws of Humanity.”1

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1. William Cooke, a captain in Church’s Rhode Island regiment, was discharged on this date.

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    To George Washington from Colonel Thomas Church, 14 October 1775
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    Church, Thomas
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    Washington, George
    Date
    14 October 1775

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    “To George Washington from Colonel Thomas Church, 14 October 1775,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-02-02-0155. [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. 163.]

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