Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794 [Order to issue army rations to three British deserters]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.02316 Author/Creator: Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794 Place Written: West Point, New York Type: Autograph note signed Date: 23 July 1783 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 8 cm, Width: 17.2 cm Order a Copy
Order issued by General Knox's aide-de-camp Major Shaw for West Point Commissary James Forsyth to issue seven days worth of rations for three British deserters "to carry them to Philadelphia." It appears that Shaw was reusing paper, as a few lines of poetry are written on the verso of this document.
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