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From George Washington to John Blair, 4 December 1772 [letter not found]

Letter not found: to John Blair, Jr., 4 Dec. 1772. On 9 Dec. 1772 the Exec. Journals of Virginia Council description begins H. R. McIlwaine et al., eds. Executive Journals of the Council of Colonial Virginia. 6 vols. Richmond, 1925–66. description ends (6:516) reported: “Col. Washingtons Letter of the 4th, Inst. to the Clerk, and the Resolves (therein inclosed) of the Commissioned Officers of the first Virginia Regt. at a meeting at Fredericksburg on the 23d of Last Month, were laid before the Board.”1

1. For the resolves, see Resolutions of the Officers of the Virginia Regiment of 1754, 23 Nov. 1772.

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    From George Washington to John Blair, 4 December 1772 [letter not found]
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    Washington, George
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    Blair, John Jr.
    Date
    4 December 1772

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    “From George Washington to John Blair, 4 December 1772 [letter not found],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-09-02-0097. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series, vol. 9, 8 January 1772 – 18 March 1774, ed. W. W. Abbot and Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1994, p. 137.]