SCHUYLER, PHILIP JOHN Major General, Continental Army . Letter signed ("Ph. Schuyler," with thick paraph) to Colonel Elias Dayton ("or Officer Commanding his Regiments on their March from Schenectady"), Saratoga, [New York], 27 October 1776. One page, folio, integral address leaf in Schuyler's hand and with his notation "on public service," central fold strengthened, seal hole patched . A very attractive 1776 military letter in the aftermath of the failed Cntinental Army's invasion of Canada, and bearing an extremely early example of the military "public service" frank. Schuyler informs Dayton, in command of a detachment proceeding from Schenectady, that "from intelligence given me by General [Nicholas] Herkimer, it is probable that your Regiment will march back to the German Flats; unless a Body of Militia can be sent to that Quarter. I have written on this Subject to a Committee of the Convention of this State now at Albany and should they find it necessary for you to return they will advise you thereof and you will then march back without Delay, if not, you will prosecute your March agreeable to my former Orders...." Provenance : 1. Frank Lester Pleadwell (sale, Parke Bernet, 8 October 1958, lot 430). 2. Joseph M. Roebling (sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 28 April 1981, lot 152).
SCHUYLER, PHILIP JOHN Major General, Continental Army . Letter signed ("Ph. Schuyler," with thick paraph) to Colonel Elias Dayton ("or Officer Commanding his Regiments on their March from Schenectady"), Saratoga, [New York], 27 October 1776. One page, folio, integral address leaf in Schuyler's hand and with his notation "on public service," central fold strengthened, seal hole patched . A very attractive 1776 military letter in the aftermath of the failed Cntinental Army's invasion of Canada, and bearing an extremely early example of the military "public service" frank. Schuyler informs Dayton, in command of a detachment proceeding from Schenectady, that "from intelligence given me by General [Nicholas] Herkimer, it is probable that your Regiment will march back to the German Flats; unless a Body of Militia can be sent to that Quarter. I have written on this Subject to a Committee of the Convention of this State now at Albany and should they find it necessary for you to return they will advise you thereof and you will then march back without Delay, if not, you will prosecute your March agreeable to my former Orders...." Provenance : 1. Frank Lester Pleadwell (sale, Parke Bernet, 8 October 1958, lot 430). 2. Joseph M. Roebling (sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 28 April 1981, lot 152).
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