Price, William, ?-1790 to Henry Knox
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.10494 Author/Creator: Price, William, ?-1790 Place Written: New Windsor, New York Type: Autograph letter signed Date: ca. 1764 Pagination: 2 p. : address : docket ; Height: 45.3 cm, Width: 28 cm Order a Copy
Lieutenant Price discusses the state of ordnance and provisions at his post. Notes, "We have been badly supplyed [sic] here with Provisions- have been out three Days at a time- and all the salt meat we have drawn has been to bad that it was merely Necessity obliged us to Eat it..."
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