Shaw, Samuel (1754-1794) to Cornelius Vandenburgh
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.01166 Author/Creator: Shaw, Samuel (1754-1794) Place Written: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 5 September 1781 Pagination: 1 p. + docket Order a Copy
Communicates order from General Henry Knox for Vandenburgh to guard listed pieces of ordnance on the way to Christiana. If he is not relieved then, he is to take the ordnance to an officer at Head of Elk. Artificers will accompany the pieces in case there is a need for repair. The supplies were going down the Washington-Rochambeau route southward toward Yorktown. Shaw was aide-de-camp to Knox. Vandenburgh was a captain in the 14th Regiment of the Albany County Militia.
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