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- GLC#
- GLC02437.00195-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 30 June 1775
- Author/Creator
- Brickett, James, 1738-1818
- Title
- Report of the day.
- Place Written
- Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 9.4 cm, Width: 19.4 cm
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
Indicates that Brickett, the Officer of the Day, made the usual rounds, found the sentries alert, and discovered nothing extraordinary. A note on the back lists some names, places, and numbers. Brickett was a Lieutenant Colonel in Col. James Frye's regiment of Minutemen. He fought at Bunker Hill and later during the Revolutionary War became a brigadier general.
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