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Discharge certificate
1783-06-08
Washington, George, 1732-1799
USA
Paper
13 1/4" x 8"; 34 x 20 cm.; 1 item (2 pages)
Gift of Caldwell Consistory, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania
A74/002/102

General George Washington discharges Private Samuel Wright, who was awarded the Badge of Merit. On the document's reverse, Wright sells his Revolutionary War Bounty Land Grant to Charles F. Weissenfels, a Lieutenant in the Second New York Regiment, on November 10, 1784. Forms part of the Elwell Autograph Collection.



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