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Jones, Thomas, fl. 1777-1782 Military Stores remaining in the State of Virginia.

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.01285 Author/Creator: Jones, Thomas, fl. 1777-1782 Place Written: Virginia Type: Autograph document Date: 4 November 1781 Pagination: 3 p. : docket ; Order a Copy

Lists quantities of ordnance held by the Continental Army in Virginia shortly after the siege of Yorktown. Colonel Edward Carrington was then mobilising the stores to be held in Virginia for the use of the Southern Army, under the charge of Deputy Field Commissary of Military Stores Jones (see GLC02437.01284). Henry Knox's copy.

Jones, Thomas, fl. 1777-1782
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

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