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Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794 [Articles issued by West Point commissary]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.02354 Author/Creator: Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794 Place Written: West Point, New York Type: Autograph document signed Date: July 1783 Pagination: 1 p. : docket Height: 14 cm, Width: 17 cm Order a Copy

List of articles received from James Forsyth as the Commissary of West Point. Compiled by Major Shaw as an aide-de-camp to General Knox. List includes: 588 pounds flour, 12 pounds bread, 318 pounds beef, 36 pounds soap, 1 quart of spirits, 19 1/2 quarts of common rum, 8 quarts of salt, and 12 quarts of vinegar.

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