The Virginia Gazette

WILLIAMSBURG, May 16.

Last Saturday evening the non-commissioned officers and soldiers of the colonial troops in York garrison formed themselves into a body, and joined by the continental artillery men, went to Doctor Griffin's door, and presented him with the following address:

SIR,

It is not without being impressed with the deepest concern that we have a short time since understood your being removed from your office, as director and physician of the hospital for our department on this station. Therefore, being well convinced of the relief we occasionally received in said hospital under your present direction, unwearied attendance, and most salutary prescriptions, in all cases immediately under your charge, we beg leave to return our most sincere thanks, hoping we may experience and enjoy, under your successor's administration in office, the same paternal kindness, diligent attendance, and equitable regulations, as under yours; which, added to our sincerest wishes for your personal welfare, is the real desire of, Sir, them who are, with due respect, your much obliged humble servants.

Gentlemen Officers and Soldiers,

Your public testimony of your approbation of my conduct gives me infinite satisfaction I do assure you, gentlemen, I have endeavoured to render you every service in my power, not only for your own sakes, but for the glorious struggle in which we are all engaged. I heartily wish you health, victory, and happiness; and I doubt not but you will meet with the same care and attention, and the same zeal for the common cause, from my successor in office. I am, gentlemen, your most obedient and very humble servant,

CORBIN GRIFFIN.

To Doctor CORBIN GRIFFIN, the address of the officers in York garrison, May 10, 1777.

SIR,

Convinced that your late removal from the charge of the colonial hospital of this garrison tends to injure a fair character, unless counteracted by those truths which, from our situation, none are so well enabled to hold out to the world as ourselves, actuated by motives of justice, we must particularly certify our sense of the effectual manner in which you have ever discharged your duty in that capacity. Some of us have been stationed here many months, most of us a considerable time; our sick have been committed to your care in pretty considerable numbers; for the efficacy of your medicines, and the diligence and propriety of administering them, the few deaths which have happened, the content of the soldiers, and the appearance of your hospital under our immediate inspection, stand as ample evidences, and claim our warmest approbation. The comforts which the sick have, upon many occasions, received from your own kitchen, are tests of your humanity, which claim our most grateful thanks.

We are, with much esteem, Sir, your humble servants,

Edward Carrington; Nathaniel Cocke, William Peirce, jun. D. Ragsdale, James Pendleton, Philip Taliaferro, James Quarles, John Camp, Peter Bernard, John Dandridge, J. Green, jun. Samuel Eddens, William Meredith, A. Bohannan, Thomas Dix, George Ancram, Thomas Fenn, jun. Jacob Valentine, A. Frazer, Thomas Upshaw.

GENTLEMEN,

It gives me the greatest pleasure to meet with the approbation of the officers in the garrison where I have acted. I am greatly obliged to you for your kind and polite address, and particularly for the tender regard which you have been pleased to show for my reputation. What reasons may have led the Council to order the change in the manner they have done, I know not; but whatever they may be, nothing shall force me from that line of conduct which I have hitherto endeavoured to observe, for the good of my country in this, as well as in every other situation in which I have been placed. I have the honour to be, gentlemen, your very humble servant,

CORBIN GRIFFIN.