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- GLC#
- GLC02437.01466-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 24 June 1782
- Author/Creator
- Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794
- Title
- to the Quartermaster at Morristown, New Jersey
- Place Written
- New Windsor, New York
- Pagination
- 1 p. : address Height: 20.2 cm, Width: 15.2 cm
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
Written by Major Shaw of Major General Henry Knox's staff to the Quartermaster at Morristown, New Jersey. Reports that on the march north from Burlington, New Jersey to New Windsor, New York, one of Knox's wagon horses "foundered" in such a way to make it impossible for her to continue. Says she was a grey mare and that she was left with a John Salter of Pompton, New Jersey, less than a mile from the Yellow House Tavern. Wants the quartermaster to pay the expense of recovering the mare so she can be put to public use.
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