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Loring, Joshua, 1744-1789 [Permit for prisoner exchange]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01412.28 Author/Creator: Loring, Joshua, 1744-1789 Place Written: New York, New York Type: Document signed Date: 30 April 1777 Pagination: 1 p. : docket Height: 31 cm, Width: 19.2 cm Order a Copy

Co-signed by General Sir William Howe and his aide-de-camp N. Rose. Permit issued by Joshua Loring, British Commissioner of Prisoners, giving permission to William Taylor to facilitate an exchange of American prisoners Richard McKnight and Thomas Little for British prisoners Peter Campbell and Charles Harrison in Monmouth County, New Jersey. Note on verso says George Washington sanctions the exchange of prisoners.

Loring, Joshua, 1744-1789
Howe, William, 1729-1814

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