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- GLC#
- GLC02437.01225-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 13 October 1781
- Author/Creator
- Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794
- Title
- to J. Pryor
- Place Written
- Yorktown, Virginia
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
Responds to Captain Pryor's 12 October 1781 letter (see GLC02437.01223) and insists that the ordnance from Richmond be unloaded at Trebell's Landing. Writes, "The General desires you will immediately send him" a return of the number of shot and shells. The ordnance was needed for the siege of Yorktown. Written from "Trenches."
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