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Major Andrew Wyncope takes
Command of the Ulster County
Field Officers for Two Weeks.

1167  CORRESPONDENCE, PROCEEDINGS, &c., OCTOBER, 1776  1168

                       Newburgh, October 21, 1776.
    At a meeting of the Field Officers of the County of Ulster, met at the house of Mrs. Ann Dubois, and unanimously agreed that Major Andrew Wyncope take the command of two Captains, four Lieutenants, and two hundred privates, which were to be raised by a resolve of Congress, out of the County of Ulster, for the space of two weeks.
    This from, gentlemen, your very humble servant,
                                       JONATHAN HASBROUCK.


Source:

Force, Peter, American Archives: Consisting of a collection of authentick records, state papers, debates, and letters and other notices of publick affairs, the whole forming a documentary history of the origin and progress of the North American colonies; of the causes and accomplishment of the American revolution; and of the Constitution of government for the United States, to the final ratification thereof., 5th Series, M. St. Clair Clarke and Peter Force, 1837-46, Volume II, p. 1167

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