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Memorandum of Stores on hand at Fishkill, Fishkill Landing 86

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.01462 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript document Date: 22 June 1782 Pagination: 1 p. : docket Height: 15 cm, Width: 22.4 cm Order a Copy

A list of military stores at Fishkill, including information on firearms and bayonets. No name appears on the document, but author might be John Ruddock: see GLC02437.01460 for letter of 20 June from Samuel Shaw to John Ruddock, asking Ruddock to provide a return of his firearm stores as soon as possible. Ruddock was Commissary of Military Stores at Fishkill.

Ruddock, John, fl. 1779-1796

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