Proceedings of the Assembly of Massachusetts on the Letter of General Washington

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Cambridge, November 29, 1775.

SIR: I am to inform you, by command of his Excellency General Washington, that he this day wrote and sent a letter , by Mr˙ Adjutant Gibbs, to Watertown, for you, upon business of importance, which Mr˙ Gibbs, through mistake, gave to the honourable the Speaker of the Assembly. His Excellency begs the favour of you to have inquiry made after the letter, that you may get it in time for the business to which it relates. I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient servant,

ROBERT H˙ HARRISON, Aid-de-Camp.

The Hon˙ James Otis, Esq˙, President of the honourable Council of the Massachusetts-Bay.

P˙S. It was delivered to the Hon˙ William Cooper, Esq˙, Speaker pro tempore.