George Washington Papers

John Morgan to George Washington, 15 March 1776

From John Morgan

Cambridge, 15 March 1776. Certifies that Samuel Tenny is qualified to be surgeon of Col. Daniel Hitchcock’s regiment.1

ADS, DNA: RG 93, Manuscript File.

1. Samuel Tenny (Tenney; 1748–1816) of Exeter, N.H., who was a surgeon’s mate in Col. Richard Gridley’s artillery regiment during 1775, served as surgeon of Hitchcock’s 11th Continental Regiment until 1 Jan. 1777, when he became surgeon of the 2d Rhode Island Regiment. Tenny transferred to the 1st Rhode Island Regiment in 1781 and was its surgeon until the end of the war.

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    John Morgan to George Washington, 15 March 1776
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    Morgan, John
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    Washington, George
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    15 March 1776

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    “John Morgan to George Washington, 15 March 1776,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-03-02-0348. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 3, 1 January 1776 – 31 March 1776, ed. Philander D. Chase. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1988, p. 473.]

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