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Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794 [Chart of field artillery ammunition stores in six locations]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.10022 Author/Creator: Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794 Place Written: New Windsor, New York Type: Autograph document Date: 13 May 1781 Pagination: 1 p. : docket ; 22.2 x 40 cm. Order a Copy

Lists numbers of various sizes of ammunition held at "Park," New Windsor, Fishkill, and West Point, New York; Succasunna, New Jersey; and Litchfield, Connecticut.

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