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Lot 337: Original NY Assembly Minutes, 1780

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Lot  337: Original NY Assembly Minutes, 1780
<b>American Revolution</b><hr><b>Assuring ClintonÕs Troops That They Are Valued and Will Be Compensated.</b>

<b>[NEW YORK] Contemporary True Copy of the Minutes of the New York Assembly Containing The Text of a Revolution Assuring ClintonÕs Troops That They Are Valued and Will Be Compensated.</b>
Manuscript Document, being the Minutes of the New York Assembly and signed by its secretary, Robert Benson, 1 1/4 pages, recto and verso, 7.75' by 13', In Senate, New York, February 15 and 16, 1780. Some minor separations at folds, but overall Choice Very Fine...Here the House of Assembly acknowledges, indirectly, the suffering of the Army in winter - facing as it was a food shortage, few clothes, no pay, and a winter of record-setting cold and snowfall; and further promises, at the conclusion of the war, to make 'suitable compensation.'

'Resolved...the House of Assembly concur here that his Excellency the governor be requested to write to Brigadier General James Clinton desiring him to assure the Officers and Soldiers of the Troops of this state in the Service of the United States, that the Legislature have a high sense of their Services - that they have paid a due attention to their Memorial and that they are now devising Ways and Means to provide them with Clothing and necessaries and to make them a suitable Compensation at the conclusion of the War.'