[Letter] 1777 Sep. 6, Head Quarters [to] Dr. Jonathan Potts / Horatio Gates.

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[Letter] 1777 Sep. 6, Head Quarters [to] Dr. Jonathan Potts / Horatio Gates.

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Gates requests that Potts come to see him the next day, along with Major Ebenezer Stevens, Major Measam [sic] and Phillip Ranselaer. The letter was written just before the Battles of Saratoga (Sep.-Oct. 1777) during the American Revolutionary War.

[1] leaf ; 32 cm.

Smith College, Neilson Library

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Smith College, Neilson Library

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Potts, Jonathan, 1745-1781

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Philadelphia physician serving as Deputy Surgeon General of the Northern Dept., U.S. Army, at Ticonderoga. From the description of Papers, 1776-1777. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155466723 Dr. Jonathan Potts was appointed surgeon to the Continental Army during the Revolution, serving in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York; he also served as purveyor general to the Middle Department of the Army. Samuel Morris was a merchant who served as captain of the Philadelphia Troop...

Gates, Horatio, 1728-1806

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American revolutionary general. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Traveller's Rest, to F. Meriwether, Esq., 1787 Jan. 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270864014 Revolutionary general. Born in England, Gates settled in Virginia in 1772 after a career in the British army that included service in the French and Indian War. He was commissioned adjutant-general of the Continental Army in 1775, and was in command at the pivotal victory of Saratoga. After Saratoga...