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Patten, Thomas, fl. 1777-1785 Provision return for one soldier employed in the ordinance department att one ration and a half pr day

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.01773 Author/Creator: Patten, Thomas, fl. 1777-1785 Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript document signed Date: December 1783 Pagination: 2 p. : docket ; Height: 12.8 cm, Width: 22.4 cm Order a Copy

Return, sorted by regiment. Signed by Captain Thomas Patten of the Artillery Artificers and countersigned "By order of the Commdt. S. [Samuel] Shaw ADC [Aide-de-Camp]." Note on verso signed illegibly.

Patten, Thomas, fl. 1738-1805
Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

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