I am enabled to reply to the third Query of [Ezh] from papers in my
possession. Wolfe's commission as second lieutenant in his father's
(Col. Edward Wolfe's) regiment of marines[3], is dated 3d November,
1741; as ensign in Col. Scipio Duroure's regiment, 27th March, 1742; as
lieutenant in the same regiment, 14th July, 1743; as adjutant in the
same regiment, 22d July, 1743; as captain in Barrell's regiment, 23d
June, 1744; as major in Lord George Sackville's regiment[4], 5th
January, 1748-49; as lieut.-col. of the same regiment, 20th March,
1749-50, and colonel by brevet, 21st Oct. 1757; colonel of the 67th
regiment, 21st April, 1758; brigadier in America, 23d July, 1758; killed
at siege of Quebec.
[Footnote 3: This regiment was afterwards numbered the 1st regiment.]
[Footnote 4: This regiment was afterwards numbered the 20th, and
then the 67th.]
Wolfe's father, Edward Wolfe, was appointed brigadier-general, 25th
April, 1745; major-general, 27th May, 1745, and lieut.-general, 30th
Sept. 1747.
If [Ezh] will communicate with me personally, I may be able to furnish
him with some other information relating to Wolfe.