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[Return of ordnance & military stores delivered to Samuel Hodgdon]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.10029 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript document Date: 4 December 1781 Pagination: 2 p. : docket ; Height: 38.7 cm, Width: 23.2 cm Order a Copy

Lists stores delivered to Hodgdon, Commissary General of Military Stores, in Philadelphia. Ordnance stores were delivered by Mr. [Richard] Frothingham, a field commissary. Lists items such as brass cannons, howitzers, mortars, drag chain, wadhooks, ladles, and gunner belts, among others. Docketed by Samuel Shaw.

Hodgdon, Samuel, 1745-1824
Frothingham, Richard, 1748-1819

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