George Washington Papers

To George Washington from Colonel Paul Dudley Sargent, 16 October 1775

From Colonel Paul Dudley Sargent

Camp before Boston, 16 October 1775. Recommends discharge of Nathan Howard, who “has been for a long time incapable of doing Duty.”1

LS, CSmH.

1. Nathan Howard, a private soldier in Capt. Jeremiah Stiles’s company in Sargent’s Massachusetts regiment, was discharged on 17 October.

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    To George Washington from Colonel Paul Dudley Sargent, 16 October 1775
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    Sargent, Paul Dudley
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    Washington, George
    Date
    16 October 1775

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    “To George Washington from Colonel Paul Dudley Sargent, 16 October 1775,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-02-02-0170. [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. 181.]