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Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794 [Order stating General Knox paid for Robert Symonds board]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.02221 Author/Creator: Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794 Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph document signed Date: 2 July 1783 Pagination: 1 p. : docket Height: 21.4 cm, Width: 16.9 cm Order a Copy

Written by Major Shaw as Major General Knox's aide-de-camp. States that Robert Symonds of the New York Artillery, who was stationed in the country with horses belonging to General Knox and other officers, received rations from 15 October 1782 to 8 June 1783, when he was furloughed. Says his board was paid by Knox and that no provisions were drawn for him in his regiment or elsewhere. A total of 236 rations were issued.

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