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- GLC#
- GLC02437.01992-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- March 8, 1783 circa
- Author/Creator
- Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794
- Title
- [Order for extra rations]
- Place Written
- West Point, New York
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket Height: 13.9 cm, Width: 21 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Order asking for the issue of provisions for 2 days for 1 corporal and 8 men belonging to Commandant(?) Baige. A total of 18 rations were issued from 9 March to 11 March. Has several signatures approving the rations, Jonathan Lillie an aide-de-camp, a Mr. Forsythe, and Major Shaw as Knox's aide-de-camp. Docket on verso is signed by a W. Woodstock.
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