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Unknown [The account of the mens tool that are discharged in Capt Oliver Titcomb Company]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01450.229.01 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: Skenesborough, New York Type: Manuscript document Date: 29 August 1776 Pagination: 1 p. ; 18 x 19.5 cm. Order a Copy

List of soldiers and the tools they have been given. All but one man listed given an ax, other tools include "spike gimblet," "adds," "chizel," and "caulking irons." Skenesborough, spelled Skeensborough in this document, is now Whitehall, New York. Titcomb was a lieutenant from Massachusetts.

Titcomb, Oliver, fl. 1776-1778

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