Letter from Samuel Tucker to Lord Stirling

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Burlington, December 4, 1775.

MR LORD: Your favour of the 2d current we duly received, and, agreeable to your directions in the return sent, we have sent the commissions of Captains Morris, Howell, and Conway, and all their officers, except the ensign' s commission for Jonathan Ford Morris, to whose appointment there are many objections, unnecessary to mention by us at this time. We wish some fit person was recommended, or, at least, some person that might be more agreeable for that ensigncy. Mr˙ Fisher has wrote to New-Brunswick about the barracks: and further, a law this day passed our House appointing Barrackmasters. What success it will meet with by Governour and Council we can' t yet tell.

As to the several other matters you recommend to us, be assured we will do all in our power to forward.

We are, with tenders of service, your Lordship' s most obedient humble servants,

SAM˙ TUCKER,

HEND' K FISHER.