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Butler, Zebulon (1731-1795) [Recommendation for a leave of absence for Captain David Judson]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.09557 Author/Creator: Butler, Zebulon (1731-1795) Place Written: West Point, New York Type: Manuscript document signed Date: 2 January 1782 Pagination: 1 p. : docket ; 14.8 x 21.2 cm. Order a Copy

Colonel Butler recommends Judson, of the First Connecticut Regiment, for a sixty day leave of absence. Directed to Major General Henry Knox.

Butler, Zebulon, 1731-1795
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Judson, David, fl. 1777-1783

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