Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794 to Richard Frothingham

GLC02437.10048

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GLC#
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Type
Letters
Date
8 October 1782
Author/Creator
Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794
Title
to Richard Frothingham
Place Written
West Point, New York
Pagination
2 p. : Height: 35.8 cm, Width: 23 cm
Primary time period
American Revolution, 1763-1783
Sub-Era
The War for Independence

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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