Samuel Holden Parsons to John Adams, June 3, 1776
New York 3d of June 1776 Sir Your favor of the 26th. Ultimo 1 I duly received. I am fully of I Opinion with you that the Rank of Officers…
Samuel Holden Parsons was an American lawyer, jurist, general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and a pioneer to the Ohio Country. Parsons was described as "Soldier, scholar, judge, one of the strongest arms on which Washington leaned, who first suggested the Continental Congress, from the story of whose life could almost be written the history of the Northern War" by Senator George F. Hoar of Massachusetts
New York 3d of June 1776 Sir Your favor of the 26th. Ultimo 1 I duly received. I am fully of I Opinion with you that the Rank of Officers…
New York 15th. Augt. [ , Start insertion, 1776 , End, ] Dear Sir Your Favors of the 3d. and 11th. Instant I received this Day for which I am…
Long Island 29th. Augt. 1776 Sir In Answer to your last 1 in which you desire some further Information respecting Shephard &c., I can inform that Lt. Colo nel Shephard…