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- GLC#
- GLC02437.02242-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 6 July 1783 circa
- Author/Creator
- Hillyer, David, fl. 1783
- Title
- [Provision return for army rations issued]
- Place Written
- West Point, New York
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket Height: 22.5 cm, Width: 23.6 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Signed by David Hillyer, a quartermaster. Countersigned by Major Samuel Shaw as Henry Knox's aide-de-camp. Provision return sent to James Forsyth, the commissary at West Point, for non-commissioned officers and privates belonging to Captain McGowan's company of the Invalid Regiment that were being detained for a board of inspection from 1-6 July. The return also includes rations for three women and six children. A total of 176 rations were issued over the six days. Docket signed by Hillyer stating that contractors delivered the rations.
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