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- GLC#
- GLC02437.02325-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 25 July 1783
- Author/Creator
- Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794
- Title
- [Request for rations]
- Place Written
- West Point, New York
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket Height: 10.5 cm, Width: 17 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Order sent by General Knox's aide-de-camp Major Shaw to West Point Commissary James Forsyth requesting that 14 rations be issued to two men late of the British army on their way to Virginia. Docket signed by a John Griffin stating that contractors delivered the rations.
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