BIB_ID
136346
Accession number
MA 553.17
Creator
Rodney, Caesar, 1728-1784.
Display Date
1778 July 22.
Credit line
Likely acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 32.3 cm
Notes
Endorsed.
Part of a two-volume set of autographs of Signers of the Declaration of Independence; see main record for MA 552-553 for more information.
Part of a two-volume set of autographs of Signers of the Declaration of Independence; see main record for MA 552-553 for more information.
Summary
Informing him that the "English armed Vessels have all now left the Delaware and as a powerful French Fleet is lying off our Coast, the inhabitants of this State do not, in my opinion, appear to be in that danger from an invasion of the Enemy, so Justly apprehended by the General Assembly when they entered into the resolution for establishing the Independent Company you Command in this County - I do therefore, in Virtue of the powers given me by the General Assembly, hereby disband the abovementioned Independent Company;" ordering him to "discharge the officers and privates thereof from further Service" and to prepare a return of those who served in the Company.
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