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The Virginia Gazette
Richmond, Williamsburg, Richmond County, Virginia
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Quakers offered to provide woollen waistcoats at their expense to British troops in the North during severe winter; proposal accepted by officers including Sir William Young and General Ligonier, with 10,000 ready in days.
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The North
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Last Week
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offer well accepted; ten thousand will be ready to be delivered in four or five days, and the rest with the utmost expedition
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some of the Quakers, in Behalf of themselves, and others of their Perswasion, waited on Sir William Young, General Ligonier, and other proper Officers, with an Offer, at their Expence, to furnish the Troops employed in his Majesty's Service, in this severe Season of the Year in the North, with Woollen Waistcoats to double over the Breast and Belly, long enough to be under their Waistbands, to be worn under their other Cloathing