Unknown [List of members in Philadelphia's volunteer association of field engineers]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02978.26 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript document Date: circa October 1814 Pagination: 2 p. ; 24 x 10 cm. Order a Copy
Jonathan Williams, the chairman Philadelphia's Committee of Defence, had a partial list of member names and requested that Robert M. Patterson make a list at a group meeting (see GLC02978.22). The engineers at that meeting resolved to have a list drawn up (see GLC02978.23 and GLC02978.24). This is probably the list made by the members.
Robert M. Patterson was a professor of natural and experimental philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, and was the chief engineer of the Corps of Field Engineers.
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