Manuscripts
Colonel Hugh Hughes letterbook
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- Description
- The manuscript is an exceedingly interesting collection of historical letters addrsesed to and written by Colonel Hugh Hughes, Commanding General at West Point and Quarter Master General of the State of New York. They are all copies of the originals, the greater part being copied by Henry Peckwell, clerk. Most of the letters are requests for supplies for the Continental army, over which Colonel Hughes had supervision, written from Fishkill and Fishkill Landing, New York.
- Production date
- 1780-1782.
- Call number
- mssHM 1649
- Provenance
- Purchased from American Art Association, 176, February 18, 1920.
- Associated people
- Greene, Nathanael, (1742-1786,)
- Heath, William, (1737-1814,)
