George Washington Papers

From George Washington to the Committee at Headquarters, 18 July 1780

To the Committee at Headquarters

Head qrs [Preakness, N.J.] July 18th 1780

Gentn

I have the honor to submit to Your consideration the inclosed Copies of Two Acts of the States of Connecticut and Massachusetts Bay, which passed respectively on the 2d & 4th of May.1 The first, by the State of Connecticut, You will be pleased to observe, is for adopting the Regiment (one of the Additional sixteen) commanded by Colo. Samuel B. Webb, and declaring it One of their Battallions, in the Army of the United States: the Last, by Massachusetts bay, for adopting in like manner, the Regiment commanded by Colo. Henry Jackson (Another of the additional Sixteen) into the line of that State, in the Army, and requesting it to be arranged accordingly. The measure in both instances, I beg leave to mention, appears to me for the reasons assigned by the Legislatures & many others that might be suggested, to be eligible, and if it should strike the Committee in the same point of view, they will be pleased to carry the Acts into execution. In such case Webb’s Regiment will be the 9th in the Connecticut line—and Jackson⟨’s⟩ the 16th in that of Massachusett’s bay.2 I have the Honor to be With great respect & esteem Genn Yr Most Obedt st

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LS, in Robert Hanson Harrison’s writing, DNA:PCC, item 152; Df, DLC:GW; copy, DNA:PCC, item 11; Varick transcript, DLC:GW.

1. The enclosed copies of these acts have not been identified, but the committee recorded both in the record of their proceedings (see DNA:PCC, item 11).

2. Enclosing copies of its two resolutions on the subject, the committee wrote Congress on 23 July. The letter reads near its close: “We have this day in concurrence with the commander in chief, annexed the regiment commanded by Colo. Henry Jackson to the Massachusetts line—that of which Samuel B Webb Esqr is colonel we have also annexed to the Connecticut line” (Smith, Letters of Delegates description begins Paul H. Smith et al., eds. Letters of Delegates to Congress, 1774–1789. 26 vols. Washington, D.C., 1976–2000. description ends , 15:491–94; quote on 493).

For the text of the resolutions and the committee’s approval of both measures, see General Orders, 24 July.

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    From George Washington to the Committee at Headquarters, 18 July 1780
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    “From George Washington to the Committee at Headquarters, 18 July 1780,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-27-02-0139. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 27, 5 July–27 August 1780, ed. Benjamin L. Huggins. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, p. 168.]

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