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Lieutenant Doggett is granted one month's leave in September of 1776. At the time this note was written Gates was headquartered at Ticonderoga, New York.
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Lieut Dogget of the Artillery, has my Leave of Absence, for one Month from the Date hereof. Tyconderoga 8th: Sept 1776 To Whom it may Concern Horatio Gates Majr: Genl. Castletown Septbr 3d 1776 This may certify that Lt. Samuel Dogget of Col Knox’s Regt of Artillery and Captn Stephens Compny is in a very poor State of Health and on that acct unfitt for Millitary Service Witnesses my Hand Jacob Lubach Practitioner in Physics
Creation Date
9-8-1776
City
Ticonderoga
County
Essex
State/Province
New York
Country
United States
Creator Life Dates
1728-1806
Keywords
Horatio Gates, Samuel Doggett, leave, furlough, permission, Ticonderoga, American Revolution, Revolutionary War
Resource Identifier
110321-19
Date Digital
11-7-2013
Document Type
Manuscript
Disciplines
Archival Science | Military History | United States History
Publisher
Wofford College
Format (medium)
manuscript
Format (IMT)
Language
En-us
Digitization Specifications
800ppi 24-bit depth color; Scanned with an Epson 15000 Photo scanner with Epson Scan software; Archival master is a TIFF; TIFFs converted to PDF with Adobe Acrobat XI Pro.
Source
The original from which this digital representation is taken is housed in The Littlejohn Collection at Wofford College, located in the Sandor Teszler Library.
Recommended Citation
Gates, Horatio and Continental Army, "Note granting Lieut. Samuel Dogget leave for a month. Signed by Horatio Gates, Ticonderoga, New York, 1776." (1776). Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection. 98.
https://digitalcommons.wofford.edu/littlejohnmss/98
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