BIB_ID
120809
Accession number
MA 558.70
Creator
Lincoln, Benjamin, 1733-1810.
Display Date
1777 Aug. 30.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1905.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 30.8 cm
Notes
Endorsed.
This item is part of a collection of autograph letters and documents by Generals of the American Revolution; see collection record (MA 558) for more information.
This item is part of a collection of autograph letters and documents by Generals of the American Revolution; see collection record (MA 558) for more information.
Summary
Ordering him to "remain with your regiment at Manchester at present, my former orders notwithstanding - I will forward to you some salt & ammunition & will also reinforce you with a Company of rangers raised on the grants who well known the country - Scouts in front will at all time be necessary in order to prevent a [illegible] & to cover the country - You will please to give me the earliest information of any discoveries you shall make of important for me to know;" requesting, in a postscript, "a return of his regiment" as soon as possible.
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