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RUSH, BENJAMIN, Signer (Pennsylvania). Autograph endorsement signed ("Benj: Rush"), [Philadelphia ?], 31 October 1776. Four lines plus signature and dateline, written on the lower blank portion of a petition of Ezekiel Letts to the Pennsylvania Council of Safety 1 page, 1 page, folio, 305 x 210 mm. (12 x 8¼ in.), backed, edges a bit worn, light stains at folds, attractively matted and framed with an engraved portrait.
RUSH RECOMMENDS AN OFFICER WHO WISHES TO RETURN TO THE CONTINENTAL ARMY AFTER HIS CONVALESCENCE
The attractive calligraphic petition explains that Letts, "late Lieutenant in Col[onel] Anthony Waynes Battalion, having laboured under a long sickness and become exceedingly weak," had been granted a "discharge for recovery of his health" by General Wayne. Now, "having recovered and growing hearty" he "offer[s] himself a Candidate for a Captaincy in the Eleventh Batallion..." Rush, as a member of the Council of Safety, gives a glowing endorsement, "I have had the pleasure of knowing M[r.] Letts for several years, and beg leave to recommend him as a prudent, sensible, worthy man, by war only attached to the American cause..."
RUSH RECOMMENDS AN OFFICER WHO WISHES TO RETURN TO THE CONTINENTAL ARMY AFTER HIS CONVALESCENCE
The attractive calligraphic petition explains that Letts, "late Lieutenant in Col[onel] Anthony Waynes Battalion, having laboured under a long sickness and become exceedingly weak," had been granted a "discharge for recovery of his health" by General Wayne. Now, "having recovered and growing hearty" he "offer[s] himself a Candidate for a Captaincy in the Eleventh Batallion..." Rush, as a member of the Council of Safety, gives a glowing endorsement, "I have had the pleasure of knowing M[r.] Letts for several years, and beg leave to recommend him as a prudent, sensible, worthy man, by war only attached to the American cause..."