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Unknown [Supplies given to Colonel David Humphreys's regiment]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.03401 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript document Date: 1786-1787 Pagination: 1 p. : docket ; 33.4 x 20.8 cm. Order a Copy

Date added later in pencil. Lists supplies provided to Colonel David Humphreys, such as hospital stores, rations, wood and clothing. Addressed to General Henry Knox.

Humphreys, Washington's former aide de camp, was heading Connecticut's contingent of the troops raised to quell Shays' Rebellion. Humphreys and his men did not reach Springfield until February of 1787, by which time the uprising had been put down.

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Humphreys, David, 1752-1818

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