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Field name | Value |
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Collection Reference Number | GLC02437.01128 |
From Archive Folder | The Henry Knox Papers [0032] August 1781 |
Title | Instructions for Lieutenant Price, Captain Patten, John Ruddock, and Thomas Frothingham |
Date | 12 August 1781 |
Author | Shaw, Samuel (1754-1794) |
Recipient | Price, William Patten, Thomas Ruddock, John Frothingham, Thomas |
Document Type | Military document |
Content Description | Shaw, aide for Henry Knox, transmits orders for Knox. All orders are issued 12 August. Orders Lieutenant [William] Price, at the New Windsor laboratory, to deliver tin to Captain Bushnell; orders Captain [Thomas] Patten, at New Windsor, to obtain tin for Bushnell through the "tinman"; orders Ruddock, deputy commissary of military stores at Fishkill, and Thomas Frothingham, deputy commissary of military stores at West Point, to obtain gun locks for Bushnell. |
Subjects | Military Supplies Revolutionary War Revolutionary War General Military History Continental Army Artillery Commerce Merchants and Trade West Point (US Military Academy) Weaponry |
People | Price, William (d. 1790) Shaw, Samuel (1754-1794) Patten, Thomas (fl. 1777-1785) Ruddock, John (fl. 1779-1796) Frothingham, Thomas (1755-1827) Knox, Henry (1750-1806) |
Place written | Dobbs Ferry, New York |
Theme | The American Revolution |
Sub-collection | The Henry Knox Papers |
Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
Module | Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859 |