GW in Philadelphia for the Second Continental Congress. He wrote a letter to Brig. Gen. Horatio Gates, but the letter has yet to be found. He dined at Burns’s Tavern and spent the evening at his lodgings.
Congress appointed two men to major general positions in the army: Artemas Ward of Mass. and Charles Lee, a former officer of the British army.
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17 June 1775
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