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| Collection Reference Number
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GLC02437.00875
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| From Archive Folder
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The Henry Knox Papers [0025] January 1781
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| Title
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Return of Ordnance Stores in the fort at Dorchester Heights belonging to the Continent
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| Date
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22 January 1781
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| Author
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Adams, John (1735-1826)
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| Document Type
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Military document
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| Content Description
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Lists military supplies and stores by fort and type. Written in Dorchester Heights, Boston, Massachusetts.
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| Subjects
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Muster Rolls and Returns Revolutionary War Military History Artillery Continental Army Ammunition Fortification
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| People
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Adams, John (1735-1826)
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| Place written
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Boston, Massachusetts
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| Theme
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The American Revolution
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| Sub-collection
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The Henry Knox Papers
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| Copyright
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The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
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| Module
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Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859
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| Transcript
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Show/hide Download PDF Return of Ordnence Stores in the forts at Dorchester Heights belonging to the Continent Fort No 1 Round Shott 28 Pos 400 9 Do 9 Fort No 2 Round Shott 9 Pos 10 6 Do 38 Boxes Case Do 24 Pos No 8 5 Boxes Case Do 12 Do No [12] 3 Bags Grap. Do 16 Bundles Slow Match 4 Port fires 6 Empty Paper Cartridges Damiagd 6 Pos 53 Cartresses filld 13 inch 13 10 Do 11 Powder horns 6 Lint Stocks 7 Tin Boxes With tubes 40: Each 3 Bitts 7 Pinchers Pare 2 Dark Lanthorns 2 Priming Wires 12 Empty Papr Cartridges Dgd 24 Pos 191 Mens harness Setts 10 Fort No 3 Round Shott 28 Pos 166 9 Do 9 6 Do 32 4 Do 400 ovr [2] Brass Cannon on Traveling Carriages 4 Pos 3 Tumbrel 1 Rounds Grap Shott for Traveling Do 5 Rounds Case Do flannel Cartridges 141 Empty Paper Cartridges Damiagd 9 Pos 3 3 Do 50 Boxes With Tubes 5 Tubes 280 Port fires 18 Lint Stocks 6 Powder hornes 5 Horns 1 Drudgen Box 1 Haversacks 4 Priming Wires 8 Case Shott 19 [inserted: Pos] No 19 2 Boxes 9 Pos No 19 2 [Do] Cartresses filld 13 inch 25 Bags Grap Shott 66 Bundles Slow Match 2 Barrells Powdr 3 Paper 28 Pos 99 9 Do 83 Cartridges filld 4 Do 27 3 Do 7 Flannel 3 Do 66 28 PoS 7 12 Do 1 Rammers & Spuneges [spunges] 9 Do 2 4 Do 3 6 Do 4 3 Do 4 Rammers 28 Pos 6 Worms 28 Do 6 Do 3 Do 1 28 Pos 7 Ladles 12 Do 1 9 Do 2 6 Do 3 3 Do 1 Spears 106 Errors Excepted Dorchester Heights January 22 1781 John Adams QMS
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