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- GLC#
- GLC02437.02466-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 4 September 1783 circa
- Author/Creator
- Means, James, 1753-1832
- Title
- Provision return for a detachment of the 2d & 3d Massachusetts regiments
- Place Written
- New Brunswick, New Jersey
- Pagination
- 2 p. : docket ; Height: 30.5 cm, Width: 19.5 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Provision return signed by Captain Means stating that the 2nd Massachusetts received 136 rations and the 3rd Massachusetts received 12 rations. The document claims that a total of 158 rations were issued. The 10 ration discrepancy is not explained. Note on verso signed by a Sargent Calvin Sears states that the contractor for New Jersey and New York delivered the 158 rations to New Brunswick.
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