Accounts, 1777-1778, with the Board of War.

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Accounts, 1777-1778, with the Board of War.

These accounts include entries for labor, barrels, wagon hire, freight, powder, muskets, bayonets, balls, cartridges and cartridge paper, and powder horns. Also includes some entries of the character of a commonplace book. On the back cover is a poem written to David Rittenhouse, from Charles Willson Peale.

1 v. (20 p.).

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