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Tenney, Samuel, 1748-1816 [Deposition of Samuel Tenney]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.10197 Author/Creator: Tenney, Samuel, 1748-1816 Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript document signed Date: circa 1783 Pagination: 4 p. : docket ; Height: 35.5 cm, Width: 23.7 cm Order a Copy

Deposition by doctor Tenney, signed as "Sam. Tenny", describing the duties of an officer in relation to Mr. Pratt's arrest. Writes, "[A] commanding officer of a company having the temporary command of a battalion or garrison had no right or pretence, on that account, to divest himself of his proper command & to impose his duty on a subordinate officer." Mr. Wheaton, supposedly broke this rule in ordering Mr. Pratt to take over Wheaton's command, though Wheaton repeatedly denies this. Mentions that Baron Steuben hopes the dispute might be settled peacefully. Watermarked.

Tenney, Samuel, 1748-1816
Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794
Wheaton, Joseph, 1755-1828
Pratt, William, fl. 1777-1845

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