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Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 [Request for rations]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.02608 Author/Creator: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 Place Written: Newburgh, New York Type: Autograph document signed Date: 2 October 1783 Pagination: 2 p. : docket ; Height: 23 cm, Width: 17 cm Order a Copy

Request for ten rations of provisions for a soldier and his two children. Relates that the soldier is sick in the hospital, his wife and one child have already died, and the other children will too without the relief. Noted as received and signed with a mark on the verso by Abraham Littlefield.

Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829
Littlefield, Abraham, fl. 1783

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