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Frothingham, Richard, 1748-1819 Return of ordnance stores deliver for Stony Point

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.01660 Author/Creator: Frothingham, Richard, 1748-1819 Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 20 March 1783 Pagination: 1 p. ; 33.4 x 20.6 cm. Order a Copy

Return of stores dated 13 October 1782 and 31 January 1783 declared by Captain [likely Ephraim] Fenno, and by John Smith. Richard Frothingham, Field Commissary of Military Stores, signs on 20 March 1783.

Fenno, Ephraim, fl. 1776-1784
Frothingham, Richard, 1748-1819
Smith, John, fl. 1782

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