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Stevens, William, 1750-1801 List of the stores deposited at Mount Hope and Hibernia

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.01739 Author/Creator: Stevens, William, 1750-1801 Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph document Date: 12 December 1782 Pagination: 2 p. : docket ; Height: 21.4 cm, Width: 17.9 cm Order a Copy

Unsigned, but authorship inferred from docket. List of shot and shells at Hibernia and Mount Hope. At the bottom of the first page, and on verso, is a note in a different hand (possibly Henry Knox's) disclosing the shells are stored in a locked area with Mr. [John Jacob] Faesch in possession of the key. See GLC02437.01738 for a related document.

Stevens, William, 1750-1801
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Faesch, John Jacob, 1729-1799

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