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- GLC#
- GLC02437.01103-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 31 July 1781
- Author/Creator
- Patten, Thomas, fl. 1777-1785
- Title
- to Henry Knox
- Place Written
- New Windsor, New York
- Pagination
- 2 p. : address : docket ; Height: 23.1 cm, Width: 19 cm
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
Patten, Captain of Artillery Artificers, reports details of work completed at New Windsor, including the building of wagon carriages, wooden bottoms (for artillery) and mortar carriages. Writes, "My Men are Very unease for want of Money, and more Unease about the men are absent and never been sent for, they think if they go that they never will be sent for, and say they Have as good write [sic] to be absent as others- whitch makes me thinks they will desert soon if something is Not done, about the Matter of geting the Deserters in that Belongs to the Company..."
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