Letter, signed, to Col. Joseph Kirkbride or Col. George Wall regarding the directing of militia to guard British soldiers defeated at the Battle of Saratoga as they pass through Pennsylvania.

by George Bryan

$7,500 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

Philadelphia, 26 November 1778. 2 pp. manuscript in ink on bifolium, 12.25” x 7.5”. Addressed, sealed, and docketed on p. 4. CONDITION: Good, document tape repairs along a few old horizontal and vertical folds. A letter by the acting president of the Pennsylvania executive council, relaying orders from General Washington for a guard of militia to march British and Hessian prisoners of the Battle of

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