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- GLC#
- GLC01450.020.17-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- November 20, 1781
- Author/Creator
- Putnam, Enoch, 1727-1796
- Title
- to Samuel Holten
- Place Written
- West Point, New York
- Pagination
- 2 p. : address : docket ; Height: 29 cm, Width: 18 cm
- Language
- English
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
Remarks that he is in good health. States that many in the county of Essex Massachusetts thought that the militia were no longer needed at West Point but they were mistaken. His Excellency (George Washington) took a great many troops to the south so the garrison is quite empty. Comments that they were alarmed by an incident taking place in New York on November 8 and got the garrison in order to receive the enemy but they never came. Sends regards to Holten's family, friends, and Benjamin Wadsworth, pastor of the church in Danvers, Massachusetts, where Holten and Putnam were from.
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