01 July 1775

GW presumably traveling to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Maj. Gen. Philip Schuyler wrote GW a letter updating him on the location of Brig. Gen. David Wooster’s troops and of sightings of British transports on the coast of Sandy Hook, New Jersey.  He also informed GW that a remonstrance sent from the assembly of the colony to the House of Commons was rejected on the basis that it contained derogatory comments towards the Rights of Parliament. Henry Ward, provincial secretary of R.I., transmitted, by order of the R.I. general assembly, the cote putting the R.I. army under GW’s command.
 

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01 July 1775
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