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Keyes, Nathaniel, fl. 1776 [Clothing receipts]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.00467 Author/Creator: Keyes, Nathaniel, fl. 1776 Place Written: New York, New York Type: Manuscript document signed Date: 2 October 1776-14 October 1776 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 20.8 cm, Width: 20.1 cm Order a Copy

Four receipts for coats, white swanskin (a kind of material) and shoes, signed by Keyes, Thomas Frothingham, John Oliver, Joseph Eayres and Nathaniel Bowen. (All served under Henry Knox.) Notes supplies received at Mount Washington from Isaiah Audebert, the quartermaster in Knox's artillery regiment.

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Audebert, Isaiah, fl. 1775-1779

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