George Washington Papers

To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Hait, 30 January 1780

From Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Hait

Camp Near Morristown Jany 30th 1780

sir

Concerning Colo. Zebulon Butlers being So long absent from his Regiment, am not able to inform you,1 I have endeavoured to inform myself by the Gentelm⟨en⟩ in the Brigade, but cannot find any that can give me any information at all, nor do I know by whose order that he remains there, This I can inform you[r] Exelcy that he has never been with his regiment since he was appointd to it, and there is hard thoughts in it Concerning him on the same Head. Am sir Your Most Obedient Humble servt

J. Hait Lt Colo. Comdt

LS, PHi: Gratz Collection.

1. Hait, lieutenant colonel of Butler’s 2d Connecticut Regiment, is responding to a query in GW’s circular letter of 22 Jan. to major generals and officers commanding brigades (see n.4 to that document).

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    To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Hait, 30 January 1780
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    Hait, Joseph
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    Washington, George
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    30 January 1780

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    “To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Hait, 30 January 1780,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-24-02-0254. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 24, 1 January–9 March 1780, ed. Benjamin L. Huggins. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, p. 327.]