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Patten, Thomas (fl. 1777-1785) [Provision return for one soldier employed in the ordinance department at one ration and a half per day]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.01779 Author/Creator: Patten, Thomas (fl. 1777-1785) Place Written: West Point, New York Type: Autograph document signed Date: 1 January 1783 Pagination: 2 p. : docket ; 10.5 x 23 cm. Order a Copy

Return signed by Captain Thomas Patten of the Artillery Artificers and countersigned "By order of the Comdt", S. [Samuel] Shaw, Aide-de-Camp. Note on verso signed by D. S. [possibly Dudley] Mercer.

Patten, Thomas, fl. 1738-1805
Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794
Mercer, Dudley S., fl. 1783

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