Joseph Webb A.L.S., Weth[ersfiel]d Ct. Dec. 25, 1777 : to an unidentified person
1777
MSS L1981.1.654
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Title
Joseph Webb A.L.S., Weth[ersfiel]d Ct. Dec. 25, 1777 : to an unidentified person
Published
Wethersfield, Conn. 1777
Description
[2] p. ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Call Number
MSS L1981.1.654
Note
I am confident I need not tell you how much real satisfaction I should take in helping your good son - and I trust I can -- likewise I am to endeavor the exchange of Col. El[y] ... I saw on board the prison ship."
I saw on board the prison ship Mr. [Thomas Updike?] Fosdick who desir'd to be remem'd to you, told me that the order on [illegible] Hills was not paid as yet ...."
"I wish you would send by my account by Capt. Harding two dozen bunches onions, half red and half white, to be deliv[ere]d Capt. Brown of the Scorpion for his politeness to me." Philip Brown was the Captain of the British sloop Scorpion
Postscript, dated 28 Dec. 1777: I have not time or I would write you the horrid dismal situation of our poor privates in the hospital in New York, indeed I must think the country does too much neglect something to be done for 'em. They suffer for want of roots, vegetables, and fresh beef ....
Joseph Webb, brother of Continental officer Samuel B. Webb, was a businessman who, according to published letters in the Washington papers and Greene papers, supplied goods to the Continental Army.
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I saw on board the prison ship Mr. [Thomas Updike?] Fosdick who desir'd to be remem'd to you, told me that the order on [illegible] Hills was not paid as yet ...."
"I wish you would send by my account by Capt. Harding two dozen bunches onions, half red and half white, to be deliv[ere]d Capt. Brown of the Scorpion for his politeness to me." Philip Brown was the Captain of the British sloop Scorpion
Postscript, dated 28 Dec. 1777: I have not time or I would write you the horrid dismal situation of our poor privates in the hospital in New York, indeed I must think the country does too much neglect something to be done for 'em. They suffer for want of roots, vegetables, and fresh beef ....
Joseph Webb, brother of Continental officer Samuel B. Webb, was a businessman who, according to published letters in the Washington papers and Greene papers, supplied goods to the Continental Army.
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