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To the Honourable WILLIAM HEATH, Esq˙, Major-General in the service of the UNITED STATES:
Honoured sir, the Petition of your Petitioner humbly sheweth:
That your petitioner, by order of General Nixon, took the charge of a number of sick belonging to his brigade, in
Orange-Town, the Province of New-York; and as various reports have circulated, and are still circulating, to the prejudice of your petitioner, viz: your petitioner making application of publick stores, received from Colonel Tapper for the use of the sick under my care, and sundry other accusations, which would only create a multiplicity of words not worthy of troubling your Honour with; therefore, as your petitioner is thus prejudiced to his dishonour, he would esteem it a favour your Honour would order a Court of Inquiry, as quick as may be, that he may have a publick hearing; and your petitioner, as in duty bound, shall ever pray.
ELEAZER HAMLEN.
Peeks Kill, 27th December, 1776.
Petition from Captain Hamlen
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