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Return of ordnance and military stores prepared for the Southern detachment.

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.10027 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript document Date: 4 November 1781 Pagination: 1 p. : docket Height: 40.3 cm, Width: 17.1 cm Order a Copy

Lists mortars, howitzers, and their implements, field pieces, items "in common for the whole," and musquetry. Docket notes these items were "order'd to the Southward from York in Virginia under Genl [Arthur] St. Clair." Docketed by Henry Knox.

St. Clair, Arthur, 1734-1818

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