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Shaw, Samuel (1754-1794) to Timothy Pickering

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.01058 Author/Creator: Shaw, Samuel (1754-1794) Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 18 July 1781 Pagination: 1 p. : docket ; 19.3 x 15.5 cm. Order a Copy

Asks Pickering, Quartermaster General, to send carts and oxen to an officer at Tarrytown, New York, for the transport of guns to Dobbs Ferry.

Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829
Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

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