1. No reply to Vose from GW has been found. However, on the verso of Lt. Oliver Hunt’s commission, GW’s secretary Robert Hanson Harrison wrote and signed a statement dated at Morristown, N.J., on 4 May 1780: “I hereby certify that Lt. Oliver Hunt of the 1st Massachusetts Regiment is discharged from farther service in the Army of the United States at his own request & solicitation” (DNA: RG 15, Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900).

Oliver Hunt (1755-1822) of Milton, Mass., entered the army in 1775 as a private in the Massachusetts regiment later commanded by Col. John Greaton. Hunt became an ensign in the 1st Massachusetts Regiment in January 1777. In 1779 he was promoted to lieutenant with a backdated commission of 11 June 1777. Hunt died in Gorham, Maine. A death notice, printed in The Eastern Argus (Portland, Me.) for 2 April 1822, reported that after the war, Hunt remained “firmly attached to the principles that gave rise to and propeled that arduous struggle.” The obituary added that Hunt “had the satisfaction in the decline of life, of experiencing the gratitude, and of enjoying the bounty of his country, by being enroled on the list of her veteran pensioners.”