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Unknown [Return of ordnance and military stores in garrison at Fort Herkimer]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.00979 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: Herkimer, New York Type: Manuscript document signed Date: 24 June 1781 Pagination: 2 p. : docket ; 35.8 x 22.9 cm. Order a Copy

Recto contains the return. Verso contains detailed remarks on the return. Includes two dockets, one written by Samuel Shaw, Henry Knox's aide-de-camp.

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

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