Resignation

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To LEWIS DUBOIS, Esq˙:

We, the subscribers, do hereby resign the appointments we held in the regiment lately ordered to be raised and commanded by Lewis Dubois, Esq˙, for the following reasons:

First: We have been ungenerously superseded, which the old arrangement of officers, made by the Provincial Congress will fully evince; for we assert that the youngest Lieutenant in the Third Regiment, to which Mr˙ Dubois belonged, is appointed a Captain over the heads of the First Lieutenant of the First, and other regiments; likewise, that Sergeants and Corporals, who went out in said Third Regiment, have superseded officers who bore commissions in the last campaign.

AARON AERSON, Lieutenant.

JONATHAN PEASE, Lieutenant.
RICHARD PLATT, Lieutenant.
DANIEL GANO, Lieutenant.
GARRET VAN WAGENEN, Lieutenant.

New York, July, 1776.