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- GLC#
- GLC01072
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- circa August 1776
- Author/Creator
- Gates, Horatio, 1727-1806
- Title
- A Journal of a Scout from Crown Point to St. John's Chamblee by Lieut Benjamin Whitcomb and four men
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 3 p. : docket ; Height: 34 cm, Width: 21 cm
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
Clerical copy of a report of Whitcomb's spying mission in Canada 14-27 July 1776. Details their progress, the weather, attempts to get prisoners, and sightings of British troops moving supplies, etc. Notes that Whitcomb fired on a British officer [Brigadier General Patrick Gordon], whom he ended up killing though he was not aware of Gordon's identity at the time. Includes a three-line autograph note signed by Continental Major General Horatio Gates to Richard Varick, who was serving as military secretary to General Philip Schuyler, advising that the report be forwarded to Schuyler.
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