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A Letter from American Patriot Timothy Pickering
to His Father, 1778
In February 1778, Timothy Pickering Jr. received word
from Massachusetts that his father was dying. An adjutant
general in George Washington’s Continental Army,
Pickering wrote his father this moving letter of farewell
from his post in Yorktown, Virginia.
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