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Letter from Colonel Brewer to General Gates

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COLONEL BREWER TO GENERAL GATES.

Ty Mills, October 22, 1776.

HONOURED SIR: Captain Whittlesey has made application

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to me, to recommend it to your Honour to have the Indians discharged. It is with the utmost difficulty I have kept them in any order until now. I most earnestly beg you will dismiss them, if you think it consistent with duty, &c.

I am sir, your Honour' s very humble servant,

SAMUEL BREWER, Colonel.

To General Gates.

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Title

Letter from Colonel Brewer to General Gates: Begs the Indians may be dismissed, it is with the utmost difficulty he has kept them in any order until now

Resource Type

text

Genre/Form

documents (object genre)

Date Created

1776-10-22

Recipient

Gates, Horatio, General

Subject

Social reality: Indian-white relations

Document ID

S5-V2-P01-sp27-D0064

Series

S5

Volume

S5-V2

Part

S5-V2-P01

Sub-Part

S5-V2-P01-sp27

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