George Washington Papers

To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Walton White, 18 January 1780

From Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Walton White

Philadelphia Jany 18th 1780

Sir,

Col: Bland having sent in his Resignation, which the Board of War tells me is æccepted of;1 pardon me for applying to your Excellency for a Certificate of my being the eldest Lt Col: in the Cavalry, without which the Board inform’s they cannot give me the Commission I am intitled to, which deprives me from procuring many things that the Regt is in great want of.2 I have the honor to be your Excellency’s Most obedt H: Sert

Anthy W: White

ALS, DLC:GW.

1. See Theodorick Bland to GW, 25 Nov. 1779, and JCC, description begins Worthington Chauncey Ford et al., eds. Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789. 34 vols. Washington, D.C., 1904–37. description ends 15:1366–67.

2. White was seeking a commission as lieutenant-colonel commandant of the 1st Continental Dragoons, stationed with the southern army in South Carolina (see GW to White, 28 Jan.).

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    To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Walton White, 18 January 1780
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    “To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Walton White, 18 January 1780,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-24-02-0150. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 24, 1 January–9 March 1780, ed. Benjamin L. Huggins. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, p. 180.]

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