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Williamsburgh, Virginia, March 1, 1776.
Yesterday morning the troops in this city being informed
"To PATRICK HENRY, JUN˙, Esq.:
"Deeply impressed with a grateful sense of the obligations we lie under to you, for the polite, humane, and tender treatment manifested to us throughout the whole of your conduct, while we had the honour of being under your command, permit us to offer you our sincere thanks, as the only tribute we bave in our power to pay to your real merits.
"Notwithstanding your withdrawing yourself from the service fills us with the most poignant sorrow, as it at once deprives us of our father and General, yet, as gentlemen, we are compelled to applaud your spirited resentment to the most glaring indignity. May your merit shine as conspicuous to the world in general as it hath done to us, and may Heaven shower its choicest blessings upon you.
"Williamsburgh, February 29, 1776."
Colonel Patrick Henry' s Resignation
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that Patrick Henry, Esq˙, Commander-in-chief of the Virginia Forces, resigned his commission the day preceding, (February 28th,) and was about to leave them, the whole went into mourning, and, under arms, waited on him at his lodgings, when they addressed him in the following manner: