George Washington Papers

To George Washington from Henry Bouquet, 4 August 1758

From Henry Bouquet

Camp near Reas Town 4th August 1758

Dear Sir

I forgot to mention in my Letter of yesterday your Second Company of artificers, which I beg you will Send here with their Tools, Tents & Bagage.1

By the Waggon which brought here the Cloathing for Capt. Field’s Company, I send 12 Tents for the four Compys of your Regt at Cumberland; I think it is the number wanted, but if I was mistaken having not the Return under my hand, Please to let me Know how many more will compleat you.2 I am Dr Sir Your most obedt hble Servant

Henry Bouquet

ALS, DLC:GW.

1. See Adam Stephen to GW, 2 Aug., n.5.

2. See GW’s Return of Tents, 28 July, enclosed in his letter to Bouquet, same date.

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    To George Washington from Henry Bouquet, 4 August 1758
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    Bouquet, Henry
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    Washington, George
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    4 August 1758

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    “To George Washington from Henry Bouquet, 4 August 1758,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-05-02-0289. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series, vol. 5, 5 October 1757–3 September 1758, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1988, p. 367.]

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