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Hand, Edward (1744-1802) [Request for provisions]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.02618 Author/Creator: Hand, Edward (1744-1802) Place Written: New Windsor, New York Type: Autograph document signed Date: 3 October 1783 Pagination: 2 p. : docket ; 13.4 x 21.5 cm. Order a Copy

Issues ten days' worth of provisions to a man in the New York line. Signed as received on the verso by John Habermeyer.

Sir
Please to Issue ten-days Provision to the Bearer John Hobermire, who was a soldier in the New York Line, & is just returned from Captivity in Canada.
Edw. Hand [B. & A. Gl.]
To the Contractors New Windsor 3d Oct.
for Issuing of Provisions 1783
Newburgh

[2] At New Burgh the 3d. Octobr. 1783 Recd. frome the Contractors for the States of New York & New Jersey the Number of ten Rations Within Mentioned
10 Rations John Habermeyer

[docket]
No. 2
American
Prisoners retg from Captivity
10 Rats. 2 Voucrs.

Hand, Edward, 1744-1802
Habermeyer, John, fl. 1783

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