Papers, ca. 1744-1890.

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Papers, ca. 1744-1890.

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Papers (1825-90) relating to Isaac Pitman (b.1806), a wool merchant of Boston, including correspondence (1861-63) concerning Pitman's attempt to advise the U.S. Quartermaster Corps to revise upward its specifications for woolen cloth for Army uniforms and his disagreements with Lt. Col. D.H. Vinton. Includes land deeds and documents (1772,1795) relating to Capt. John Updike and the Colony of Rhode Island and land deeds of the Minot family of Pelham, N.H.

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United States. Army. Quartermaster Corps

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Fort Arbuckle was built in the Indian Territory of Oklahoma on April 19, 1851 and was formally designated a fort in June 1851. It was established by the U.S. Army to protect the region's relocated Chickasaw and Choctaw tribes from raids by Kiowa and Comanche Indians. The fort was also visited by wagon trains of Mormons and other emigrants enroute to the California gold fields. On June 24, 1870, Fort Arbuckle was abandoned when the establishment of Fort Sill rendered its further maintenance as a ...

Pitman family.

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Minot family.

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Pitman, Isaac, 1806-

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Vinton, D. H.

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United States. Army

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Updike, John

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