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Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794 Ordnance & Stores from Head of Elk & Baltimore arrived in James River.

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.01192 Author/Creator: Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794 Place Written: Williamsburg, Virginia Type: Autograph document Date: 26 September 1781 Pagination: 3 p. : Order a Copy

Lists quantities of artillery supplies that had arrived and ships with supplies that had not yet arrived. The ordnance was for the siege of Yorktown. The last page is separated from the first two; the two parts are marked with the reference code VII-77 and VII -78, respectively. Henry Knox's copy.

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

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