Transcription
CATALOG NUMBER VC 3029
OBJECT NAME Letter (“Copy”)
DATE December 22, 1780
AUTHOR Colonel Frederick Weisenfels,
RECIPIENT
MEDIUM paper, ink
PEOPLE Cap’n. [Walker], /[Fowler] & [Dunscomb]
PLACES Schenectady
KEYWORDS Revolutionary War,
Schenectady Dec’r. 22” 1780
Dear Colonel
In arranging the Troops of this / State it falling to ‘??] to have the / 2’d, 4th,, & 5th Regiment are to be incorpora / ted [^ into one] which I am to have the Command / of I will therefore be much obliged / if you will please to inform the / officer who will have the command / when you leave the regiment that / it is [^ my] Desire there should be Three / Companies Form’d of the men you / at present Command Except the / light Infantry which as they will / form?? Be incorporated with the / infantry fo the other Reg’ts so as / to form the 9th Company; Cap’n. [Walker], /[Fowler] & [Dunscomb] will be the Officers / to Comm’d the three Companies _ I would / also advise that you order someone / to muster the Troops in the Garrison /
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The last day of the Year as the pay / will be drawn on the Old Establishment / untill that time, & the first of Jan’y: the / Three Companies will [??] themsel / as a detachment from the 2d New / York Reg’t
[LABEL]
Copy of a L
[etter?] Coll.
Weisenfeles
Dec’r 1780
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Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
