Discharge Certificate for Private Cato Greene from Military Service, Rhode Island

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[Printed document with blank spaces filled in by hand]

BY HIS EXCELLENCY
GEORGE WASHINGTON, ESQ
General and Commander in Chief of the Forces of the
United States of America.

THESE ARE TO CERTIFY that the Bearer hereof Cato Greene, Soldier in the Rhode Island Regiment, having faithfully served the United States five years and being inlisted for the War only, is hereby DISCHARGED from the American Army.

GIVEN AT HEAD-QUARTERS the
15th June 1783
G. Washington

By HIS EXCELLENCY'S
Command,
J. Trumbull [illegible]

REGISTERED in the Books
of the Regiment, Rhode Island
 JGreenman Adjutant.

THE above
has been honored with the BADGE OF MERIT for  5
Years faithful service

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HEAD-QUARTERS, June 15th. 1783.

THE within CERTIFICATE shall not avail the Bearer as a Discharge, until the Ratification of the definitive Treaty of Peace; previous to which Time, and until Proclamation thereof shall be made, He is to be considered as being on Furlough.

GEORGE WASHINGTON.

Cato Greene
S.F. 38753
R.I.

[stamp at bottom right] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES