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Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794 to the Commissary

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.01790 Author/Creator: Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794 Place Written: West Point, New York Type: Autograph document signed Date: 3 January 1783 Pagination: 2 p. : docket ; 7.7 x 19.9 cm. Order a Copy

Writes, "Please to issue to Prince Darby of the Massa. Artillery, fifteen days provision from the 4th instant - he being ordered on command with officers horses. By order of the Comdt." Note on verso signed illegibly.

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Darby, Prince, fl. 1783

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