Orderly book, 1780.

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Orderly book, 1780.

This volume is an orderly book kept by Sergeant Mathew Drury for the First Artillery Regiment at the winter encampment in Morristown, New Jersey from January 3 to April 7, 1780. Also included with the volume is a typed transcript of the orderly book made in 1953.

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New Jersey Historical Society Library

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