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Smith, Wallace S., fl. 1781 to Joseph Vose

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09338.01 Author/Creator: Smith, Wallace S., fl. 1781 Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: February 23, 1781 Pagination: 1 p. : Order a Copy

As Lafayette's Aide-de-Camp, to Colonel Joseph Vose, commanding a regiment in Lafayette's Light Division. "The Marquis De La Fayette requests that the troops if the wheather is not too severe when you receive this may move to Pompton Plains immediately."

Vose, Joseph, 1738-1816
Smith, Wallace S., fl. 1781
Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834

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