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Holograph Manuscript Draft of Discharge Request of New Hampshire Major General Moses Dow to Governor John Taylor Gilman

1798ref. 44770Haverhill NH 1798. Very good two chipped corners light tearing and soiling along folds contents slightly faded but clean. 1 sheet. 7.75 x 13 inches. Dated June 4th 1798 Haverhill NH. Unsigned draft of a resignation letter to Governor John Taylor Gilman requesting to be discharged from service with the New Hampshire State Militia. "It is now almost fourteen years since I was called into the military line: And going on the sixth however unworthy - since I have been honoured with the command of the second division of militia in this state in the office of Major General. Now being considerably advanced in years & not enjoying a firm state of health. I am desirous of returning to retirement & making room for the better experienced & more alert officers." Moses Dow 1747-1811 born in Haverhill graduated Harvard in 1769 took up law was Kings Attorney 1774-5 under the Royal Governor and served in the New Hampshire colonial legislature1775-6. a Revolutionary War soldier state senator for the Fourth Provincial Congress president of the Senate; postmaster registrar of probate and Justice of the Peace. He served in the state militia from 1784 to 1798 with his final service as Major-General and though elected to Congress by the New Hampshire Assembly he wrote to Gilmore that he could not accept as in this case based on his ill health. References: Hamilton Child: Gazetteer of Grafton county N. H. 1709-1886 Syracuse NY. Syracuse Journal Company 1886; Francis Parkinson Keyes: "Moses Dow Citizen of Haverhill” Granite Monthly 3rd Quarterly Issue 1918 pp 141-144; Chandler E. Potter: Military History of the State of New Hampshire from its Settlement in 1623 to the Rebellion in 1861 Concord NH : McFarland and Jenks 1866Vol I; Dartmouth has his papers. unknown