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Colonial and State Records of North Carolina
Letter from T. Leonard to John Alexander Lillington
Leonard, T.
February 01, 1782
Volume 16, Page 497

COL. LEONARD TO GEN. ALEXANDER LILLINGTON.

Town Creek, 1st February, 1782.

Sir:

I am very sorry it has not been in my Power to Comply with your Orders Sooner but being at Newbern at the time your orders Came, hope it Excusable. The within, if a True Copy of the men returned by the difrant Captain, I have Certificates for our quoto of Drafts from a Continental officer but they are misplaced, So that I Can’t find them at Present, but Shall as Soon as Possible Send you a return of them, and am Sir

Your Most Humb. Servt.,
T. LEONARD,
Col. B. Nt.