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Monthly abstract of extra issues, under the contract for the states of NYork & Jersey in the month of August, 1783

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.02448 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript document Date: August 1783 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 25.3 cm, Width: 20 cm Order a Copy

List of extra rations issued in August 1783. A total of 1,805 and 1/2 extra rations were issued for that month. The groups that received issues included: army prisoners, men on garrison fatigue duty, engineering department, police officers of the garrison, Indians, bargemen, discharged soldiers, artillery artificers, soldiers on command at sundry places, prisoners released from captivity, and British deserters. Colonel James Livingston was issued 155 of those extra rations.

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