Letter from the Provincial Congress of New-Jersey to President Hancock

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In Provincial Congress, New-Jersey, Brunswick, February 6, 1776.

By motion made, Resolved unanimously, That the following gentlemen be recommended by this Congress to the honourable the Continental Congress, as proper persons for Field-Officers of the Third Battalion, to be raised in this Colony, to wit: Elias Dayton, Colonel; Anthony Walton White, Lieutenant-Colonel; Francis Barber, Major.

A true copy:

WILLIAM PATTERSON, Secretary. SAMUEL TUCKER, President.

Ordered, That the President do sign an attested copy of this Resolution, and transmit the same to the Continental Congress. A true copy.

Attest: WILLIAM PATTERSON, Secretary.