George Washington Papers

Brigadier General Joseph Spencer to George Washington, 16 December 1775

From Brigadier General Joseph Spencer

Camp at Roxbury, 16 December 1775. Recommends Stephen Keyes for a vacant first lieutenancy in Col. Samuel Holden Parsons’s regiment.

LS, DLC:GW. For background on this letter, see Keyes to GW, this date. For another recommendation of Keyes, see Jedediah Huntington, Samuel Wyllys, and Samuel Holden Parsons to GW, this date.

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    Brigadier General Joseph Spencer to George Washington, 16 December 1775
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    Spencer, Joseph
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    Washington, George
    Date
    16 December 1775

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    “Brigadier General Joseph Spencer to George Washington, 16 December 1775,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-02-02-0517. [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. 561.]

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