John Page to Wythe, 23 June 1777
Letter text
Sir,
The Governor and Council in the Beginning of the present Session submitted to the Assembly the propriety of passing a Law or some Resolution to enable them to turn over the men inlisted by such recruiting officers as have resigned or been discontinued for want of having completed their Quota, to such officers as have come the nearest to a Completion of their Quota, the present Law requiring that they shall be turned over to the Officer appointed to succeed. This Alteration the Board thought before was proper, in Point of Justice, but they find now it is become absolutely necessary for forming a compleat Battalion to join Genl Washington, agreeable to Resolution of Assembly; it being impracticable to select the necessary officers with their full Quotas; & several must be sent with large Deficiencies.
I have the Honor to be with great Respect
Sir
Yr mo. obt hble Servt
JOHN PAGE
The Honble George Wythe Esqr
Speaker of the House of Delegates
[Endorsed:] Honble John Page Esqr Letter June 23d 1777 Respecting State Battalion to be marched to the Northward.
References
- ↑ "John Page, Lieutenant-Governor, to the Speaker of the House of Delegates (From Virginia State Archives, Executive Papers)," in Official Letters of the Governors of the State of Virginia, vol. 1, The Letters of Patrick Henry, ed. H. R. McIlwaine (Richmond: Superintendent of Public Printing, 1926), 165.
