North, William (1755-1836) [Provision return]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.02214 Author/Creator: North, William (1755-1836) Place Written: West Point, New York Type: Autograph document signed Date: 1 July 1783 Pagination: 1 p. : docket ; 21.5 x 20 cm. Order a Copy
A provision return for four men belonging to Baron Steuben's barge. Three of the men were from the 2nd Massachusetts and one from the 1st Massachusetts regiment. Noted and signed by Samuel Shaw, Henry Knox's aide-de-camp, on page one: "-sixteen rations By order of the Comdr." The document also bears a handwritten docket signed by Shaw plus another docket signed by David Blake.
William North was an aide to Baron von Steuben. After the war he served in the U.S. Senate (1798), as adjutant general of the Army, with the rank of brigadier general (1798-1800), and as one of the commissioners of the Erie Canal.
A provision Return for four men belonging to Baron Steubens [strikeout] barge commencing July first & ending the fourth both [illegible] -
Names - Regt
David Barker - 1 Massa
Abm Newport - 2 do
Abias Whittam - 2 -
John Barges - 2 -
please to give the above
- sixteen rations
By order of the Comdr
S. Shaw A.D.C. Wm North
A D Camp -
July 1 1783
Mr [Frothingham]
[docket]
Extra Issues
16 Rations 34
[At.] Wt Point July 1. 1783
[Issud.] Sixteen Rations
from the Contractors
for the States of N. York
& Jersey -
David Barke
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