LS, 1777 January 21 : Princeton, to Council of Safety, Philadelphia.

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LS, 1777 January 21 : Princeton, to Council of Safety, Philadelphia.

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Reports his Captains "have just informed me that their Companies have run away to a Man ... this spirit of Desertion should be crush'd in its Infancy & the Militia taught that there is a Power that can & will detain them."

1 1/2 p. ; 32 x 19 cm.

Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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