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Unknown [List of salaries for the Department of War]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.05769 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript document Date: 31 December 1792 Pagination: 1 p. ; 30 x 19.8 cm. Order a Copy

Lists the salaries of the members of the War Department for the months of October, November and December. Names include John Stagg Junior, R. J vanden Brock, Constant Freeman, Benjamin Bankson, Philip Audibert [Audebert], Nathan Jones, James B. Smith, and Fredrik [Frederick] Sprigg. Noted as written at the War Office.

Audebert, Philip, fl. 1788-1796
Bankson, Benjamin, fl. 1791-1792
Freeman, Constant, 1757-1824
Jones, Nathan, fl. 1790-1792
Smith, James B., fl. 1792
Sprig, Frederick, fl. 1792-1797
Stagg, John, Jr., 1758-1803
Vanden Brock, R. J., fl. 1789-1793

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