Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794 [Request for rations]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.02324 Author/Creator: Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794 Place Written: West Point, New York Type: Autograph document signed Date: 25 July 1783 Pagination: 1 p. : docket Height: 10.5 cm, Width: 17 cm Order a Copy
Order sent by General Knox's aide-de-camp Major Shaw to West Point Commissary James Forsyth requesting six rations for three men "late of the 23d British regiment." Docket signed by a Jonathan Hamilton that contractors delivered the rations.
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