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- GLC#
- GLC02437.01749-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 17 December 1782
- Author/Creator
- Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794
- Title
- to John Miles
- Place Written
- West Point, New York
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket Height: 27.2 cm, Width: 20.9 cm
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
Written to Captain Lieutenant [likely John] Miles of the Office of Police. At the top of the page, Shaw writes a note to Miles granting a license to a Mr. Reynolds to be a sutler at the West Point garrison. Asks Miles to keep a register of the licenses he grants, and that the licenses take the following standard format: "Mr. [blank space] is hereby licensed to suttle on West Point till further orders - he conforming himself to and strictly obeying all orders and regulations which are or may hereafter be given for the government of sutlers. Given at West Point by order of Gen. Knox."
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