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TRANSPORTING THE SARATOGA CONVENTION ARMY D.S.

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TRANSPORTING THE SARATOGA CONVENTION ARMY D.S.
<b>38. TRANSPORTING THE SARATOGA CONVENTION ARMY </b>Manuscript D.S. 1p. legal folio, [n.p., c. Autumn 1778], the "<i>Proposed Distribution of Waggons for the British Troops agreeable to the number allowed by Major Gen. Heath on leaving Cambridge</i>" 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: "<i>Surgeon General Weir, with one Hospital Mate and the sick -- as also Commissary Genl Clark and Leiut Nutt remain behind for a short time...</i>". After their sojourn in Vermont, the army, numbering about 5,000 British and Germans, marched to Charlottesville, Va. Split horizontal folds repaired with tape, margins chipped, otherwise very good.<b>$500-700</b>