To George Washington from Major Morgan Alexander, 17 December 1777
From Major Morgan Alexander
17th Decr 1777.
Sir
The Smallnes of my Fortune, and the confused Situation of my affairs, obliges me to offer you my comision,1 could my family Subsist without me, I would by no means think of parting with the honour of holding a comision in so very desirable a Service.2 I am with the greatest esteem your Excelency’s Most Obdt Huml. Servt
Morgan Alexander
ALS, DNA: RG 93, Commissions, 1775-1778. GW’s secretary Robert Hanson Harrison docketed the letter: “Major Alexander resignd 17 Decr 1777.”
1. Alexander enclosed the commission, dated 23 Dec. 1776, by which Congress appointed him major of the 2d Virginia Regiment (DNA: RG 93, vol. 169, Commissions and Resignations, 1775-1780). Records indicate that Alexander was transferred to the 8th Virginia Regiment on 22 March 1777 (see General Orders, that date; see also , 35, 55).
2. No reply to Alexander from GW has been found.