WASHINGTON, GEORGE, President. Printed document signed ("G:Washington") as Commander-in-Chief, Continental Army, countersigned by John Trumbull Jr., Secretary, AND BY BRIGADIER GENERAL MOSES HAZEN, "Head Quarters," [New Windsor, near Newburgh, New York], 17 June 1783. 2 pages, folio, 342 x 215 mm. (13 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.), light dampstains, a section cleanly detached along one horizontal fold, a small blank square renewed at bottom corner and a few small patches at fold intersections, enclosed in an early (ca. 1840?) American double-glazed mahogony frame. A Continental Army discharge certificate granted to "Sargeant [sic] William Woodward, from the State of Massachusetts, in General Hazen's Regiment," who has "faithfully served the United States six years, eleven months," and "having inlisted [sic] for the war only, is hereby discharged."

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WASHINGTON, GEORGE, President. Printed document signed ("G:Washington") as Commander-in-Chief, Continental Army, countersigned by John Trumbull Jr., Secretary, AND BY BRIGADIER GENERAL MOSES HAZEN, "Head Quarters," [New Windsor, near Newburgh, New York], 17 June 1783. 2 pages, folio, 342 x 215 mm. (13 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.), light dampstains, a section cleanly detached along one horizontal fold, a small blank square renewed at bottom corner and a few small patches at fold intersections, enclosed in an early (ca. 1840?) American double-glazed mahogony frame. A Continental Army discharge certificate granted to "Sargeant [sic] William Woodward, from the State of Massachusetts, in General Hazen's Regiment," who has "faithfully served the United States six years, eleven months," and "having inlisted [sic] for the war only, is hereby discharged."

Officer's discharges from the Revolution are much rarer than those for enlisted men. Moses Hazen's was one of the most distinguished of all the regiments formed from Massachusetts. Hazen (1733-1803), a veteran of the French and Indian campaigns, joined the Continentals in the Canadian campaigns and was given command of the 2nd Canadian Regiment, "Hazen's Own," which fought at Long Island, Brandywine and Germantown. Later commanding a brigade under Lafayette, he paticipated in the Yorktown campaign before retiring in 1783 to Vermont.