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- GLC#
- GLC04764.77-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 29 May 1779
- Author/Creator
- Kingston, Robert M., ?-1794
- Title
- to Captain Ross
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 20.1 cm, Width: 16.7 cm
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
Written by Kingston as a staff officer to General John Burgoyne. Kingston wrote this somewhere in Britain, where he returned with Burgoyne in April 1778. Requests action on his "particular exchange" as a prisoner of war. Mentions that he could be exchanged for Lieutenant Colonel Bellinger or Colonel Hale. Kingston was only formally a prisoner. He returned to Britain and promised not to fight until exchanged.
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