(AMERICAN REVOLUTION) Commission of five men as Ingineers in

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(AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) Commission of five men as "Ingineers in and over the different Fire Engine Companies" in occupied New York. One page (11 x 13 inches) on half of a folded sheet; several folds, minor foxing, wax seal mostly intact. Fort George, NY, 12 April 1782

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Signed by the loyalist governor of New York, James Robertson (1710-1788), while the city was still under British occupation. After the British evacuation, four of these engineers petitioned to keep their jobs under the new nation's administration, but none of them were retained. See Golway, So Others Might Live, 30.