Letter from President Hancock to the New-York Congress

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Philadelphia, June 27, 1775.

GENTLEMEN: By the unanimous vote of this Congress, I am directed to assure you that they have a high sense of your services in the common cause of the United Colonies, and to inform you of the appointment of the several General Officers to command the Continental Forces; a list of whom I now enclose you. The subordinate officers to be recommended by the Provincial Congresses to the General, to whom commissions from this Congress are sent to be filled up agreeable to such recommendation.

I am, gentlemen, your most obedient servant,

JOHN HANCOCK, President,

To the Members of the Provincial Congress, New-York.

George Washington, Esq., General and Commander-in-Chief of all the Forces raised or to be raised for the defence of American Liberty.

Artemas Ward, Esq., First Major-General.

Charles Lee, Esq., Second Major-General.

Philip Schuyler, Esq., Third Major-General.

Israel Putnam, Esq., Fourth Major-General.

Seth Pomeroy, Esq., First Brigadier General.

Richard Montgomery, Esq., Second Brigadier-General.

David, Wooster, Esq., Third Brigadier-General.

William Heath, Esq., Fourth Brigadier-General.

Joseph Spencer, Esq., Fifth Brigadier-General.

John Thomas, Esq., Sixth Brigadier-General.

John Sullivan, Esq., Seventh Brigadier-General.

Nathaniel Greene, Esq., Eighth Brigadier-General.

Horatio Gates, Esq., Adjutant-General, and with the rank of Brigadier-General.

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