Delia Tudor, A.L.S. Washington, May 19th 1834 : to the Honorable William Baylies
1786
MSS L2014F109 MB
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Title
Delia Tudor, A.L.S. Washington, May 19th 1834 : to the Honorable William Baylies
Published
Dutchess County, [N.Y.] 1786
Description
[3] p. on 2 conjugate leaves ; 23 x 19 cm.
Call Number
MSS L2014F109 MB
Note
The widow of William Tudor, late adjutant general of the Continental Army and an original member of the Massachusetts Society, writes to Massachusetts Congressman Baylies to protest the failure of Congress to honor the pensions revolutionary war veterans and their heirs, including claims to compensation for pay not received or received in depreciated notes.
She writes: "During the earliest struggle for independence of his country, Mr. Tudor embarked in her cause. Having just begun his career in the practice of the law he left his books & other property in the town of Boston--was among the general muster outside the lines a confidential assistant among the general officers that were organizing an army of resistance, & was of course among the first to which the name Rebel was affixed. He was immediately employed to write a code of military laws suited to the new levies differing in some points from the british code. He then in the same spirit of patriotism performed to the entire approbation of the Great Commander & all the general officers the duty of his vocation as Judge Advocate of the Army." She also mentions his membership in the Society of the Cincinnati.
She writes: "During the earliest struggle for independence of his country, Mr. Tudor embarked in her cause. Having just begun his career in the practice of the law he left his books & other property in the town of Boston--was among the general muster outside the lines a confidential assistant among the general officers that were organizing an army of resistance, & was of course among the first to which the name Rebel was affixed. He was immediately employed to write a code of military laws suited to the new levies differing in some points from the british code. He then in the same spirit of patriotism performed to the entire approbation of the Great Commander & all the general officers the duty of his vocation as Judge Advocate of the Army." She also mentions his membership in the Society of the Cincinnati.
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