Manuscript Group 163, Hugh Hughes (fl. 1782), Deputy Quartermaster of New York Daybook, 1782

 

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Manuscript Group 163, Hugh
Hughes (fl. 1782), Deputy Quartermaster of New York

 

Daybook, 1782, 0.3 linear
feet / 1 volume

 

Call Number: EN 172 (Ely
Collection)

 

 

Summary

 

 

 

 


Summary:

 

Official correspondence of
the deputy quartermaster for the state of New York.  Includes copies of
letters from Timothy Pickering, Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, and George
Washington.

 

Gift of Edwin A. Ely, 1928.


 

Biographical
Note:

 

Hugh Hughes was the deputy quartermaster
for the state of New York.  He was based at Fish Kill, New York in 1782.

Provenance
Note:

 

Edwin Ely donated this collection in 1928.

Scope
and Content Note:

 

This daybook contains copies of orders and
requests made to and by Hugh Hughes while he was the deputy quartermaster of New
York in 1782.  The orders and requests vary a great deal, but are often for
such things as horses, hay, and bran.  The daybook includes letters from
Timothy Pickering, Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, and George Washington.

Related
Collections:

 

For more information on quartermasters in
the American Revolution see:

 

Manuscript Group 110, James Abeel
(1733-1825), Deputy Quartermaster General, Papers

 

 

Processed by James Lewis, May 2001 as part of the “Farm to City”
project funded by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records
Commission.

 

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