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[List of members in Philadelphia's volunteer association of field engineers]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02978.26 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript document Date: 1814/10 Pagination: 2 p. : Height: 24 cm, Width: 10 cm Order a Copy

Jonathan Williams, the chairman Philadelphia's Committee of Defence, had a partial list of member names and requested that Robert M. Patterson make a list at a group meeting (see GLC02978.22). The engineers at that meeting resolved to have a list drawn up (see GLC02978.23 and GLC02978.24). This is probably the list made by the members.

Patterson, Robert M. (Robert Maskell), 1787-1854

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