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United States. Continental Congress. [Congressional Resolution]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.00884 Author/Creator: United States. Continental Congress. Place Written: New Windsor, New York Type: Manuscript document signed Date: 9 February 1781 Pagination: 1 p. : docket Height: 19.8 cm, Width: 19 cm Order a Copy

Resolution stating that "the Officers & Men of the Regiment of Artillery Artificiers have the same pay from after the 1st of August, in Bill, of the new Emissions as was originally fixed in Bills of the then Emissions, by the Regulations of the Department made by Congress on the 11th of February 1778 & that they draw the Number of Rations there directed." Noted as an extract from General Order. In the hand of, and signed by, Henry Knox's aide, John Doughty.

Doughty, John, 1754-1826

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