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Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794 to the Commissary

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.01825 Author/Creator: Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794 Place Written: West Point, New York Type: Autograph note signed Date: January 10 1783 Pagination: 2 p. : docket ; Height: 12.1 cm, Width: 16.7 cm Order a Copy

Orders to issue a day's worth of rations to musicians in the New Hampshire line "detained at this post by the present storm." Endorsed by a man named Samuel, surname illegible.

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

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