28 June 1775

GW traveling to Cambridge, Massachusetts. John Hancock, president of the Second Continental Congress, wrote a letter from Philadelphia to GW, informing him of several resolutions passed by Congress regarding instructions to Gen. Philip Schuyler, in charge of the N.Y. forces, to take possession of two Canadian cities and discover information about troops at Ticonderoga and Crown Point. He enclosed a letter from Brig. Gen. Horatio Gates.
 

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28 June 1775
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