Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794 [Request for gunner quadrant]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.01215 Author/Creator: Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794 Place Written: Yorktown, Virginia Type: Autograph document Date: 8 October 1781 Pagination: 1 p. : Order a Copy
Note requesting a gunner's quadrant for Captain Joseph Savage's 2nd artillery regiment. Another note on the bottom dated 15 October indicates that Savage received one. Savage's regiment was then involved in the siege of Yorktown.
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