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Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794 [Request for rations]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.02325 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 that 14 rations be issued to two men late of the British army on their way to Virginia. Docket signed by a John Griffin stating that contractors delivered the rations.

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

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