George Washington Papers

Colonel William Shepard to George Washington, 1 April 1781

From Colonel William Shepard

Springfield [Mass.] April the 1st 1781.

I would inform your Excellency that I Shall Send on to Camp from this post betwen Ninty and a Hundred Recruits—which will march to Morrow Morning.

But am not Able to arm and accoutre them a Greeable to your Excellencys orders as Colo. Cheevers has not any arms Repaird.1

the Recruits Come in much Faster then here to fore.2 I am your Excellencys most obdt Humle Servt

Wm Shepard

ALS, DLC:GW.

1. Ezekiel Cheever was deputy commissary general of military stores at Springfield. For the orders, see GW to Shepard, 22 Feb.; see also GW to Benjamin Lincoln, 9 January.

2. For more recruits sent from Massachusetts, see Shepard to GW, 24 April.

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    Colonel William Shepard to George Washington, 1 April 1781
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    Shepard, William
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    Washington, George
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    1 April 1781

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    “Colonel William Shepard to George Washington, 1 April 1781,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-31-02-0167. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 31, 7 March–5 May 1781, ed. William M. Ferraro. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2023, p. 249.]

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