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Webb, Samuel Blachley, 1753-1807 [Recommendation for a leave of absence for Jonathan Hart]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.09601 Author/Creator: Webb, Samuel Blachley, 1753-1807 Place Written: West Point, New York Type: Manuscript document signed Date: 1 January 1783 Pagination: 1 p. : docket Height: 15.3 cm, Width: 23.2 cm Order a Copy

Colonel Webb recommends Hart (spelled "Heart" in docket) for a fifteen to twenty day leave of absence. Directs his request to Major General Henry Knox.

Webb, Samuel Blachley, 1753-1807
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

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