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- GLC#
- GLC02437.01597-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- September 11, 1782
- Author/Creator
- Tilghman, Tench, 1744-1786
- Title
- to Samuel Shaw
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 29.4 cm, Width: 17.7 cm
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- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
Writes, "It appears clearly to me that the order forbidding the issue of Rum to Women does not extend to Mrs. [Margaret] Corbin - Granting provision at all, to Women who are followers of the Army, is altogether matter of courtesy, and therefore the commanding General may allow them such a Ration as he thinks proper - But Mrs. Corbin is a pensioner of Congress, and therefore, upon procuring the Resolve made in her favor - Genl. [Henry] Knox, as commandant, may direct the Contractor to commute her Retained Rations of liquor - perhaps it would not be prudent to give them to her all in liquor - So much. Seriously and officially. Now Friend Samuel, how comes it, that a woman with an old decrepit Husband should be far advanced in pregnancy?" See GLC02437.01591, GLC02437.01595, and GLC02437.01611 for related information.
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