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Shaw, Samuel (1754-1794) to Freeman Lincoln

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.01085 Author/Creator: Shaw, Samuel (1754-1794) Place Written: Sleepy Hollow, New York Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 25 July 1781 Pagination: 2 p. : docket ; 19.7 x 15.6 cm. Order a Copy

Shaw, Knox's aide, informs Lincoln, a commissary, he is to proceed bringing the military stores from Providence, Rhode Island to Fishkill, New York, and to deliver them to John Ruddock, Deputy Commissary of Stores at Fishkill. Excessive bleed-through on page two. Written at Philipsburgh, New York (present-day Sleepy Hollow).

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794
Lincoln, Freeman, fl. 1781

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