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FIVE DAYS BEFORE BUNKER HILL (REVOLUTION.) Livingston, Peter Van Brugh. Manuscript Letter Signed, as President of the New York Provincial Congress, to Major General David Wooster, sending Angus McDonald to him as a prisoner and informing him "We have received Information by Capt. Thomson who arrived here last night from Cork in Ireland, that four full Regiments have embarked in Ireland for this City & may be expected here every Hour. We therefore think it unsafe to suffer so dangerous a Person to Enjoy his Liberty at this Juncture . . ." 1 page, single 4to sheet; short repaired tear, minor restoration repairing small hole with loss of two letters (replaced in manuscript facsimile). New York, 12 June 1775
The British troops were headed for Boston, not New York, to participate in the Battle of Bunker Hill, which occurred just five days after this letter.<
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