September 26, 2018 O'Connor's Americana Collection
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/26/2018
"Acco[un]t of provisions and Stores received at the Post of West Point by James Forsyth, Issuing Commissary to Wadsworth & Carters, Contractors, commencing the 16th and ending the 31st October 1782...." Autograph Document Signed (ADS), elephant folio sheet written with ink in columnar format, in which various provisions and related stores (flour, fresh and salt beef, cattle, hides, tallow, rum, soap, candles, salt and peas) are recorded by date received and delivering party, followed by issues of such out of the West Point storehouse to various entities of the Continental Army, including Generals Ebenezer Huntington, Henry Knox and William McDougall, the General Hospital, commissaries and storekeepers. Signed by Forsyth at West Point on November 1st, 1782.
Item Dimensions: 20 - 1/2" x 17".