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[GENERAL WASHINGTON] TO THE COMMITTEE OF PORTSMOUTH˙ New-Hampshire.
Cambridge, January 28, 1776.
SIR: Colonel Parsons has instructions from his Excellency to get an order from the Committee at Newburyport, for the delivery of two hundred and fifteen stand of arms, which General Sullivan ordered in his name should be delivered for the service on which he last went to Portsmouth. It is
To —, Esq˙, Chairman, &c.
(General Washington) to the Committee of Portsmouth, New-Hampshire
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the General' s request that these arms be delivered up to
Colonel Parsons˙ I am, &c.