George Ross to the Pennsylvania Committee of Safety
ALS: Historical Society of Pennsylvania
<Lancaster, December 29, 1775: The bearer, Samuel Atlee, was
the eldest captain in the Pennsylvania service when the troops
were disbanded at the end of the last war. He told me this morning
that he intended to ask the committee of safety to recommend
him for command of one of the battalions to be raised on order of
the Congress. His character as a gentleman is good among us; his
conduct as an officer I have heard well spoken of, and Colonel
Miles, with whom he served, knows it well. I recommend him as
one who, if appointed, will do honor to the nomination. Many
members of the committee are well acquainted with him, and I
should not bring any one to their attention unless I were fully
satisfied that he deserved it. I am so recently recovered from the
gout that traveling would be dangerous in this severe weather;
otherwise I should attend the committee on Tuesday next. Addressed
to Franklin as president of the committee.>
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