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To George Washington from the Massachusetts Council, 6 January 1776

From the Massachusetts Council

[Watertown, Mass.] 6 January 1776. Recommends Abel Thayer and John Lynds of Col. John Fellows’s regiment for Continental commissions.1

LS, signed by Walter Spooner, DLC:GW.

1. John Fellows (1734–1808) of Sheffield commanded a Massachusetts regiment in the Continental army until the end of 1775 and served as a brigadier general of the Massachusetts militia from 1776 to 1780. Abel Thayer (1741–1805) of Williamsburg, Mass., had been a captain in Fellows’s regiment, and John Lynds had been an ensign or second lieutenant in the regiment. Neither Thayer nor Lynds apparently received commissions in the new army.

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    “To George Washington from the Massachusetts Council, 6 January 1776,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-03-02-0027. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 3, 1 January 1776 – 31 March 1776, ed. Philander D. Chase. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1988, p. 47.]