Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794 to Richard Frothingham
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.10048 Author/Creator: Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794 Place Written: West Point, New York Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 8 October 1782 Pagination: 2 p. ; 35.8 x 23 cm. Order a Copy
Shaw instructs Frothingham, Field Commissary of Military Stores, to send articles to Lieutenant Fenno for his use at Stony Point, New York. Requests items such as cartridges, ladles, quadrants, dredging boxes, hand spikes, hammers, weights, shovels, and buckets, among others.
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