GATES, Horatio, Major General, Continental Army.. Autograph draft letter signed ("Horatio Gates") TO GOVERNOR WILLIAM LIVINGSTON OF NEW YORK, Tyconderoga, 12 November 1776. 1 page, 4o, integral blank, endorsed on verso, several emendations to the text by Gates. A retained draft of a letter from Gates, commander at Fort Ticonderoga, recommending a New Jersey surgeon: "...Mr. Barnet...has in his Duty of Surgeon to the First Jersey Battalion, acquitted himself with the Utmost Dilligence & Capacity, and...in many instances, for the Good of the Service, he exerted himself far beyond the precise Line of his Duty."