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- GLC#
- GLC02437.01445-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 8 June 1782
- Author/Creator
- Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794
- Title
- to John Ruddock
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 18.6 cm, Width: 15.1 cm
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
Written from "Head Quarters." Shaw writes to Ruddock, the Field Commissary of Military Stores for Fishkill, that General Henry Knox wants Ruddock to send Colonel George Reid, commanding officer at Albany, "twenty thousand musket cartridges for the use of the troops under his command." On the verso is an "Extract of a Letter" from Colonel Reid (spelled Ried), addressed to General Washington, and written in a different hand. This letter informs Washington that they are "almost Distitute of Cartriges in this Quarter - the few that are on Hand, are much too small, being made for the Militia Arms - I wish a Quantity of Musquet Ball, Cartrige paper & thread, may be ordered on as soon as possible - there is powder in Store sufficient for the present."
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