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Letter from Captain Polhemus to Lord Stirling

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CAPTAIN POLHEMUS TO LORD STIRLING.

New-Brunswick, December 15, 1775.

SIR: Your favour of the 14th instant, I received, and note the contents, and shall endeavour to call in all the men out on furlough as speedily as possible. I find much difficulty in keeping the men together, now they are billeted about the town; but expect to have the barracks ready to go into by Monday or Tuesday next, and doubt not by the latter end of next week to have my company altogether in the barracks, ready for your further orders. I understood that two or three companies of our battalion are

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expected to lie here some time; if so, shall esteem it a particular favour of your Lordship if you will continue us in this town till such times as we may be properly equipped or wanted for immediate duty.

I have the honour to be, my Lord, your Lordship' s most obedient, humble servant,

JOHN POLHEMUS.

The Honourable Earl of Stirling, Elizabethtown.

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