Caleb Gibbs A.L.S., Boston, June, 2d, 1797 : to Increase Sumner, Esquire, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Roxbury

Caleb Gibbs A.L.S., Boston, June, 2d, 1797 : to Increase Sumner, Esquire, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Roxbury

Boston 1797

[4] p. ; 23 cm. (4to)

MSS L1989.1.75 M MB

"Having had the honor to serve in the American army from the battle of Lexington till two years after the peace, six successive years of which time as commandant of the corps of guards, particularly attached to the person of the commander in chief and aid de camp to the same great man ... induces me to offer myself to your excellency as one of your aid de camps ...."|Gibbs also offers his congratulations to the newly elected governor.|Gibbs was an original member of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati.|Watermark: GR beneath a shield|Pages [3] and [4] are blank

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