Lot 39
39. TRANSPORTING THE SARATOGA CONVENTION ARMY Manuscript D.S., 1p. legal folio, [n.p., c. Autumn 1778], the "Proposed Distribution of Waggons for the British Troops agreeable to the number allowed by Major Gen. Heath on leaving Cambridge" The document lists a total of 56 wagons to be used in what we believe to be their move from Cambridge to Rutland, Vt. At bottom the writer has added: "Surgeon General Weir, with one Hospital Mate and the sick -- as also Commissary Genl Clark and Leiut Nutt remain behind for a short time..." After their sojourn in Vermont, the army, numbering about 5000 British and Germans would be marched to Charlottesville, Va. Split horizontal folds, repaired on verso, margins chipped, otherwise very good. $200-300
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