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Shaw, Samuel (1754-1794) Return of Military Stores in the Magazine at Williamsburg.

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.01266 Author/Creator: Shaw, Samuel (1754-1794) Place Written: Williamsburg, Virginia Type: Autograph document Date: 26 October 1781 Pagination: 1 p. + docket Order a Copy

Contemporary copy of GLC02437.01267. Lists quanties of ordnance. Compiled shortly after the siege of Yorktown. Jones was a Deputy Field Commissary of Military Stores under the command of Colonel Edward Carrington.

Jones, Thomas, fl. 1777-1782
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

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