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Sawyer, James, 1762-1827 [Provision return]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.02362 Author/Creator: Sawyer, James, 1762-1827 Place Written: West Point, New York Type: Manuscript document signed Date: 3 August 1783 Pagination: 1 p. : docket ; 15.5 x 19.9 cm. Order a Copy

Return for a fatigue party stationed by Fort Montgomery. Countersigned by John Lillie and a Mr. Bell, with a signed docket by John Prescott. Mr. Bell, most likely refers to Robert Bell, an assisstant commissary of issues in New Jersey.

Bell, Robert, fl. 1732-1784
Lillie, John, 1755-1801
Prescott, John, fl. 1783
Sawyer, James, 1762-1827

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