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- GLC#
- GLC02437.01322-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 1 January 1782
- Author/Creator
- McDougall, Ranald Stephen, fl. 1782
- Title
- [to the issuing commissary at New Burg New Windsor or Fishkill Landing]
- Place Written
- West Point, New York
- Pagination
- 2 p. : docket ; Height: 19.9 cm, Width: 17.8 cm
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
Relaying orders of General Alexander McDougall. Written by McDougall's son and aide-de-camp. Docketed by Samuel Shaw, Henry Knox's aide-de-camp. Orders that "Sarah Dean the wife of Moses Dean Sergeant in the Artillery Artificers" receive a ration for herself and half a ration for each of her six children until further orders. "No Rum is to be issued to her or the Children." On verso, an autograph note signed by Daniel Niven, Captain of Engineers, certifies that the document is "a true Copy of the Original."
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