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Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794 [Provision returns for Thomas Clews]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.02223 Author/Creator: Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794 Place Written: West Point, New York Type: Manuscript document signed Date: 2 July 1783 Pagination: 1 p. : docket ; 13.5 x 17 cm. Order a Copy

Written and signed by General Knox's aide-de-camp Samuel Shaw. Thomas Clews, of the Corps of Invalids, is given 107 complete rations by order of General Knox. A note of receipt from the contractors for the states of New York and New Jersey is included on the docket.

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794
Clews, Thomas, fl. 1783

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