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Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794 [Return of rations issued to thirty-one prisoners]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.10085 Author/Creator: Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794 Place Written: West Point, New York Type: Manuscript document signed Date: 27 January 1783 Pagination: 2 p. : docket ; 35.6 x 23 cm. Order a Copy

Covers five days. Includes information for some regiments from Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maryland, and New York. Signed by Shaw as aide-de-camp to General Henry Knox, commander at West Point. Also signed by Captain Richard Douglass. Sergeant Benjamin Brooks signs a note on verso confirming receipt of provisions.

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794
Douglass, Richard, fl. 1783

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