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PROPERTY OF A CALIFORNIA LADY
WASHINGTON, George. Partly printed document signed ("G:o Washington"), Headquarters, 8 June 1783. 2 pages, folio (13¼ x 8in.), badly worn at creases, paper losses, tape repairs on verso. Counter-signed by Jonathan Trumbull, Jr., John H. Wendell, and Lt. Col. Cornelius Van Dyck.
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WASHINGTON, George. Partly printed document signed ("G:o Washington"), Headquarters, 8 June 1783. 2 pages, folio (13¼ x 8in.), badly worn at creases, paper losses, tape repairs on verso. Counter-signed by Jonathan Trumbull, Jr., John H. Wendell, and Lt. Col. Cornelius Van Dyck.
"BY HIS EXCELLENCY GEORGE WASHINGTON, ESQ., COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES." A discharge certificate for Private Daniel Shields of the First New York Regiment, "having faithfully served the United States for the term of three years. This example is in the usual worn state in which all these well-traveled discharge certificates survive. Shields--who enlisted in 1780 and served in Col. Peter Ganseveoort's Third New York Regiment before it was merged into Col. Gose Van Schaik's First New York--applied for a pension in 1818 and stated that he "was at the taking of Cornwallis's Army" at Yorktown and fought in "skirmishes, &c., &c." By 1818 he was "in reduced circumstances, poor, indigent" and "in need of the assistance of his country for support." He died in 1835, aged 72.
"BY HIS EXCELLENCY GEORGE WASHINGTON, ESQ., COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES." A discharge certificate for Private Daniel Shields of the First New York Regiment, "having faithfully served the United States for the term of three years. This example is in the usual worn state in which all these well-traveled discharge certificates survive. Shields--who enlisted in 1780 and served in Col. Peter Ganseveoort's Third New York Regiment before it was merged into Col. Gose Van Schaik's First New York--applied for a pension in 1818 and stated that he "was at the taking of Cornwallis's Army" at Yorktown and fought in "skirmishes, &c., &c." By 1818 he was "in reduced circumstances, poor, indigent" and "in need of the assistance of his country for support." He died in 1835, aged 72.