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Letter from the Independent Company of Alexandria, in Virginia, to General Washington. [1775-07-08] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p1608] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
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Alexandria, July 8, 1775.
MAY IT PLEASE YOUR EXCELLENCY: Your favour of the 20th ultimo, notifying your intended departure for the camp, we received, and after transmitting copies to the different officers to whom it was directed, we laid it before a full meeting of your company this day. At the same time that they deplore the unfortunate occasion that calls you, their patron, friend, and worthy citizen, from them, and your more tender connexions, they beg your acceptance of their most hearty congratulations upon your appointment to the supreme military command of the American confederated forces.
Firmly convinced, Sir, of your zealous attachment to the rights of your Country and those of mankind, and of your earnest desire that harmony and good will should again take place between us and our Parent State, we well know that your every exertion will be invariably employed to preserve the one and effect the other.
Your kind recommendation, that a strict attention be had to disciplining the company, shall be complied with, and every possible method used for procuring arms and ammunition.
We are to inform you, Sir, by desire of the company, that if at any time you shall judge it expedient for them to join the troops at Cambridge, or to march elsewhere, they will cheerfully do it.
As the success of our arms, during the unhappy contest for our liberties, will ever afford us the highest satisfaction, and as reports heretofore have been various and unauthentick, we entreat your Excellency, should there be any future engagement, and your leisure permit, to favour us with an account. Let our concerns for the cause we are embarked in claim your excuse for this freedom.
We now recommend you to the favour of Him by whom Kings reign and Princes decree justice; and wishing all your counsels and operations to be directed by his gracious providence to a happy and lasting union between us and Great Britain, we are, with great regard, for selves and the company, your Excellency' s most obedient and humble servants,
JAMES HENDRICKS,Independent Company of Alexandria to General Washington
GEORGE GILPIN,
ROB. H. HARRISON.
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Letter from the Independent Company of Alexandria, in Virginia, to General Washington. [1775-07-08] Anonymous. [S4-V2-p1608] [Document Details][Complete Volume]