(CANADIAN REGIMENT) HAZEN MOSES Letter Signed as Colonel of

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'A FOURTEENTH STATE IN AMERICA' (CANADIAN REGIMENT.) HAZEN, MOSES. Letter Signed, as Colonel of the Canadian Regiment in the Continental Army, to George Washington, seeking an allotment of clothing for his ill-equipped regiment. 4 pages, folio, on a single folded sheet; retained copy, docketed on final page, minor wear at folds. 'Camp, Peeks-kill' [Peekskill, NY], 20 November 1779

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The Second Canadian Regiment was recruited in the wake of the Battle of Quebec early in 1776; it was later filled out with soldiers from the United States. Their service at Brandywine, Germantown, and elsewhere is recounted here. Unlike the state-based regiments, they received no regular allotment of clothing or supplies, leading to the rather desperate state of affairs detailed in this petition, titled
'The Memorial of Col. Moses Hazen.' Hazen points out that 'Neither officer or soldier in the regiment has ever received a farthing's value of clothing, or other supplies whatever, out of any state or Continental store, otherwise than a dividend of coarse clothes with the other troops at Hartford.' He suggests that 'the regiment may be adopted by their own–a fourteenth state in America.' Published in Pennsylvania Archives, VIII:17-20; and The Collector, October 1900, pages 130-1. Provenance: Anderson's William E. Robinson sale, 21 January 1904, lot 526; C.F. Libbie sale, 15 February 1910, lot 1135; G.A. Baker sale, 22 November 1938, lot 34.